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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:55:28 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>
CC: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add fast lzo decompressor
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Andreas Robinson wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the system can default to the safe decompressor for normal use
> and choose the fast one if STATIC is defined or when system_state ==
> SYSTEM_BOOTING?
> 

Do we really need two pieces of code?  What if we have memory corruption 
during early boot - it seems we'd want to at least try to catch that 
with an error message rather than just crashing.

	-hpa
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