[PATCH 2/2] (g)unzip: Optimize inflate_codes()
Natanael Copa
natanael.copa at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 09:51:53 UTC 2010
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Dan Fandrich <dan at coneharvesters.com> wrote:
> I just hacked busybox to use zlib (dynamically linked) instead of its internal
> compression/decompression routines and got this out of bloatcheck:
>
> (add/remove: 0/38 grow/shrink: 1/4 up/down: 67/-11449) Total: -11382 bytes
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 812761 2444 9288 824493 c94ad busybox_old
> 802011 2464 9288 813763 c6ac3 busybox_unstripped
>
> So, if you have zlib on disk already due to some other application's
> dependency, BusyBox contains over 11KB of bloat.
This would actually be nice to have as a config option, regardless
what gz implementations ends un in busybox.
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Natanael Copa
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