linux-kernel - Re: There are smaller ways to encode a CRC32 table...

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:54:36 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
CC:	ijc@...lion.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: There are smaller ways to encode a CRC32 table...

George Spelvin wrote:
> The code to fill it in is smaller than the table itself.
> Is it worth complicating things with some INIT code to reduce
> the stored image size?  (The table is not compressible.)

I think it matters not at all either way.

	-hpa

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