Re: boot floppies [was: an important task]
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:25:22PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> >>>>> 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.
Be careful. Although the time is probably not a matter even for older
machines, overly memory usage can kill an install on low-memory machines.
Well, not that I would recommend installing Mach on any low end machine...
Thanks,
Marcus
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