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From: Arne Schwabe <arne@...1227...>
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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:49:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove support for snappy compression.
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To: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>, openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Am 10.10.15 um 18:34 schrieb Gert Doering:
> LZ4 is using less CPU at similar performance, and it is easier to
> build and support for binary installs (as it does not require C++
> and a C++ runtime).  Since it was never supported in any formally
> released OpenVPN version, just drop it again.
> 
> This leaves in the compression opcode for Snappy for documentation
> purposes.
> 
> trac #617

ACK from me. Snappy is probably not used outside from testscripts.

Arne