Re: boot floppies [was: an important task]

[Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>]

>>>>> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:

 TBB> It is already the case that the Hurd exec server understands
 TBB> gzipped executables, if -DGZIP is given at compile time (which
 TBB> is the default).

 TBB> What additional work did Uchiyama do that you are referring to?

bzip2 decompression, which is a free block-sorting algorithm that
yields smaller files than gzip at the expense of some extra time and
memory.

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