linux-kernel - Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:24:01 -0400
From:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Drew Scott Daniels <ddaniels@...lumni.mb.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> There are lots of obscure compression formats that achieve somewhat 
> better compression at the cost of MUCH more time (neglecting they are 
> not too open), such as MS CAB and ACE.

CAB is an archive container format, not a compression algorithm.  Last 
time I worked on some code to handle it, they used the standard LZW 
algorithm implemented by gzip ( but had the ability to support others in 
the future ) and could only compress 32kb blocks.  The small block size 
led to poor compression.


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