Am 04.02.10 00:52, schrieb Christos Zoulas: > In article <20100203170030.ga7...@panix.com>, > Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:33:59PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:39AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: >>>> It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. Christos wants it >>>> for bootblocks, among other things (or so he says -- ask him). >>> >>> For boot blocks or boot loaders? >> >> Ask Christos. I don't use it for that purpose myself (I use it for >> a number of other things a very fast compressor is useful for, like >> network data streams and backups). I am guessing what he was after >> was small size and fast decompression (for some resource-constrained >> platform?). > > I wanted to evaluate using it at work, for data streaming. The discussion > with Thor went like: > Thor: I have it already integrated in my own tree, should I import it. > Christos: Sure I think so; it is small enough and we don't have something > else with similar functionality in the tree, LZO is GPL, and the rest are > too big/complicated. > >> The bottom line is that I had the code in my local tree, someone whose >> technical opinion I respect sufficiently to simply check it in on his >> request made the request, and so I did. >> >> As I said earlier, if you want to remove 3-5000 bytes from the system, >> I can recommend some much better candidates. > > I still think it is useful and it should stay, just because the code is > so simple. It is not the best compressor, but it is a fast and easy to > understand one. If you don't think so, I'll remove it.
Actually I totally agree with you, I also think it should stay.
