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Clarification on a few points

Clarification on a few points

Posted Jan 31, 2012 23:24 UTC (Tue) by landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to: Clarification on a few points by epa
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

The source code to busybox, as a compressed tarball, is bigger than the binary of busybox. Since small size is one of the major design criteria in embedded software...

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Clarification on a few points

Posted Feb 1, 2012 10:20 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (guest, #31018) [Link]

Yeah, but memory usage is the main issue these days, not hard-disk usage, so there would be a way to have the source code ready to be grabbed but never loaded into memory.

When there is a will, there is a way :-)

Clarification on a few points

Posted Feb 1, 2012 11:18 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

About 1.6 megabytes compressed with lrzip -z. Add a bit more for the decompression code and it comfortably fits in two megabytes, which is not expensive given current flash memory prices.


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