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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs
Date: 15 Oct 2001 15:53:53 -0700
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110151436040.755-100000@lisa.rhpk.springfield.inwind.it>
By author:    Cristiano Paris <c.paris@libero.it>
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> 
> Third, is there any project which tries to implement bzip2 algorithm
> inside the kernel ? Does it give better compression ratios on 1-page-long
> data ?
> 

No, in fact, it has been measured to be somewhere between the same and
significantly worse, even with the 32K chunk size that zisofs uses.

	-hpa
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