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

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

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?).

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.

Thor