On Sun, 7 September 2008 01:17:55 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
Less, actually. Iirc gzip takes about 280k for compression and
somewhere below 100k for decompression with the kernel runtime zlib.
The various copies that unpack kernels at boottime may be worse - they
are certainly rather old copies of zlib and haven't seen much
maintenance since.
Jörn
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