Re: [PATCH 2/2] Disable lzo compression, lzma is doing its job just fine

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

> There then there is an issue of user choice.  I think we are offering
> too many choices without explaining what's behind it.
>
> I could say lzo is "old and proven" and lzma is "new and more
> effective", but since lzo is disabled by default and there are no
> complaints about it, keeping lzo becomes pointless.
lzo is faster than lzma but I did a small count and seen that
decompression time is around 10 ms on 31 KiB image on slow computer.
Difference of few ms doesn't pay off
>
> I don't think we are going to see compression much more effecting than
> lzma to justify keeping the infrastructure for more than one compression
> algorithm.
Now I agree with you. No further oppositions from me
>
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> Pavel Roskin
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