Re: Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint

[Willy Tarreau]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:47:45AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 6 June 2005 00:35:28 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > 
> > I recently discovered p7zip which comes with the LZMA compression algorithm,
> > which is somewhat better than gzip and bzip2 on most datasets, [...]
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> Citeseer has never heard of that algorithm, top 10 google hits for
> "LZMA compression algorithm" are completely uninformative.  Does
> anyone actually know, what this algorithm is doing?

It's described here :
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA

implemented here :
   http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA

and here :
   http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

Willy

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