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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:39:17 -0500 From: "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@...oo.ca> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, openrisc@...ts.librecores.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] treewide: remove bzip2 compression support Excerpts from Alex Xu (Hello71)'s message of December 15, 2020 2:03 pm: > bzip2 is either slower or larger than every other supported algorithm, > according to benchmarks at [0]. It is far slower to decompress than any > other algorithm, and still larger than lzma, xz, and zstd. > > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1588791882.08g1378g67.none@localhost/ > > Signed-off-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@...oo.ca> Upon further research, I found that bzip2 removal was already implemented as part of zstd addition, but were apparently abandoned in an effort to get zstd in. I will check those patches and try sending those instead. Thanks to all reviewers for comments on this patch.
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