[PATCH] store --help messages in compressed form. saves 35k

Giuseppe Ciotta giuseppe at telvia.it
Wed Apr 5 09:20:09 UTC 2006


On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:57:20AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:41, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > Subject basically says it all.
> > 
> > Run tested with and without verbose help messages.
> 
> Owww, sorry, patch contains stray Makefile.in.orig file.
> Corrected patch is attached.


>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE
> +
> +#include "usage_compressed.h"
> +#include "unarchive.h"


I'd rather prefer to activate compression of help messages
indipendently from CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE, since I often use a
compressed filesystem and having two decompressions (one at fs layer
and one at the application layer) would be undesiderable.

-- 
Giuseppe Ciotta
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