As you can see, it uses 1700kB less, which is not much, but it may also speed up loading from slow media such as an usb stick, because the qemu binaries are smaller.
OT: Why isn't there a mailing list? I *hate* forums.
Cheers, StephanI was toying a little with 7z a -mx=9 -tgzip and then gzip -9.
Both provide a minirt.gz smaller than the original. I was expecting that from 7z, but not for busybox gzip, since I thought it was already compressed at maximum setting.
Is there any reason for not doing so? Speed or memory constraints in old computers?It has been considered. Yes, the impact on older slower computers prevents from doing so.
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