Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi, > > what was the motivation to select nrv2b for compression? > Speed? Size of decompressor? Coding style? > > Size File > 843910 vmlinux.bin > 437684 vmlinux.bin.nrv2b > 430890 vmlinux.bin.gz > 414679 vmlinux.bin.bz2 > 357609 vmlinux.bin.7z > > If the 7z decompressor is less than 80 kb bigger than > the nrv2b decompressor, would it make sense to switch?
It's fine with me. As i said, I had a gzip decompressor in early linuxbios, and we can look at getting it back. I just stole the one from the kernel. nrv2b is nice, I understand, for the romcc section where you don't have many variables to play with, but it's been so long since I looked at the gunzip code that I have no idea if this is true. ron -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
