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

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 04.02.10 00:52, schrieb Christos Zoulas:
> In article <20100203170030.GA7564%panix.com@localhost>,
> Thor Lancelot Simon  <tls%panix.com@localhost> 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.