linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add fast lzo decompressor

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Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:13:26 +0200
From:	Andreas Robinson <andr345@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add fast lzo decompressor

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 15:42 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I think if the cost is 40 ms once during boot on a slow platform, it's 
> worth unifying the two codebases.  I am *not* saying that I don't think 
> boot performance matters -- far be from it -- but I think this is 
> probably worth the reliability and maintainability advantages of having 
> a single piece of code if at all possible.
> 
> Of course, if you can figure out how to avoid that and still have the 
> code clean, then that's another matter.

Alrighty. I will merge the two functions and if that turns out ugly, go
with the safe one, and submit a new patchset. I'll be right back. :)

Cheers,
Andreas

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