linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support

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Message-ID: <20070529212625.GS3899@stusta.de>
Date:	Tue, 29 May 2007 23:26:25 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@...il.com>,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm-cc@...top.org,
	linuxcompressed-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Purdie <richard@...nedhand.com>,
	Bret Towe <magnade@...il.com>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:10:05PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On May 28 2007 19:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> >I have not seen any explanations:
> >- Why did the upstream author write the code that way?
> 
> I guess it's along the lines of
> - portability
> 
> (note how this contradicts itself). Really. I have yet to
> figure out why everyone invents their own xxx32_t types,
> like e.g. glib. well, integer types, one might understand, but when it
> comes to gchar or gpointer, that's just plain microsoft-style
> (think LPCSTR and LPCVOID...)

You completely miss the point of my question.

It's about the performance improvements of the modified code that were 
mentioned.

What you are talking about shouldn't have any effect on the generated 
code.

> 	Jan

cu
Adrian

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