linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

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Date:	Sat, 12 May 2007 13:41:44 +0200
From:	Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:41:03 +0200
devzero@....de wrote:

> oh - and think of linux software suspend.
> take a notebook with 2 GB of ram - that takes a while to write that
> to disk and read that back again. using lzo compression for this may
> probably halve the time for suspend/resume

There were already some attempts on merging of the lzf algorithm:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/26/215

Also, ffmpeg/libavcodec contains a much cleaner implementation of LZO
decompressor, with comparable performance (but no compressor yet I am
afraid).

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka

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