Re: Compression and on-disk sorting

Ühel kenal päeval, K, 2006-05-17 kell 12:20, kirjutas Zeugswetter
Andreas DCP SD:
> > Certainly, if you can't prototype a convincing performance win using
> > that algorithm, it's unlikely to be worth anyone's time to 
> > look harder.
> 
> That should be easily possible with LZO. It would need to be the lib
> that
> we can optionally link to (--with-lzo), since the lib is GPL.
> 
> lzo even allows for inplace decompression and overlapping compression.

Does being GPL also automatically imply that it is patent-free, so that
we could re-implement it under BSD license if it gives good results?

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Hannu