At 10:32 PM 2/16/01 +0100, c-3 wrote:

I just wondered why the kernel is always compressed. Couldn't you
save boot time, if it's not???

  Depends on the speed of the medium from which you read the kernel,
and the speed of the processor.

If the processor can decompress faster than the medium can read, it makes
sense to compress the image.

Erik


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