Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Adam Hoka wrote:
> >
> > It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. ?Christos wants it
> > for bootblocks, among other things (or so he says -- ask him).
> 
> U-boot and grub2 can boot lzma compressed images, and its also more
> efficient, what about lza? I think this needs some rethinking. :-)

I think you're talking about a different kind of "efficiency".  lzf
decompresses at nearly the speed of memcpy, and the decompressor is
900 bytes.

The public domain C implementation of lzma is well over half a megabyte
and appears to require threads.  It seems extremely silly to me that
you'd pick that particular straw man while complaining about system bloat.

In any event, I'm certainly not going to back out lzf on the basis of
such silliness.  So, personally, I consider this conversation closed.
If you have a problem with that, take it up with core.

Thor