Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

[Phillip Susi]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> There are lots of obscure compression formats that achieve somewhat 
> better compression at the cost of MUCH more time (neglecting they are 
> not too open), such as MS CAB and ACE.

CAB is an archive container format, not a compression algorithm.  Last 
time I worked on some code to handle it, they used the standard LZW 
algorithm implemented by gzip ( but had the ability to support others in 
the future ) and could only compress 32kb blocks.  The small block size 
led to poor compression.


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