Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:30:12 -0800
From: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
To: Axel Kittenberger <axel.kittenberger@univie.ac.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible Bootloader Optimization in inflate (get rid of unnecessary 32k Window)
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:12:38PM +0100, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> > Have you timed this operation?  I would predict that the time to copy
> > the kernel is nominal as compared the the time taken to perform the
> > decompression.
> 
> In the current version it is defleated AND copied. The optimization would
> reduce it by 1 copy.

Right.  And the time to perform that one copy is exactly...?

I doubt that it is a significant percentage of the whole operation.

> 
> Greetings, Axel
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