[Toybox] Working on unxz-some questions

[Bastian Bittorf]

* Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> [04.03.2013 08:45]:
> 
> On the compression side, we've got a quick streaming compressor
> already (gzip) which gets the low hanging fruit of compression and is
> going to be faster than anything else (fits in L1 cache a lot of the

there is an interesting discussion on bb-mailinglist,
regarding speed of compression/decomp and objsize:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2013-February/078963.html
http://lzip.nongnu.org/benchmark.txt

but anyway: IMHO gzip must be handled and a good compressor
is not the goal of toybox, mostly decompression is important.

bye, bastian

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