Re: libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
15 Oct 2001 15:53:53 -0700


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110151436040.755-100000@lisa.rhpk.springfield.inwind.it>
By author: Cristiano Paris <c.paris@libero.it>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Third, is there any project which tries to implement bzip2 algorithm
> inside the kernel ? Does it give better compression ratios on 1-page-long
> data ?
>

No, in fact, it has been measured to be somewhere between the same and
significantly worse, even with the 32K chunk size that zisofs uses.

-hpa

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