[Zlib-devel] #ifdef out strerror prototype for VMS

[Glenn Randers-Pehrson]

At 12:14 AM 6/26/2004 -0400, Cosmin Truta wrote:
>
>On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Mark Adler wrote:
>
>> On Jun 25, 2004, at 3:32 PM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
>> > The total code size increase we observed from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1 was about
>> > 11 kbytes.
>>
>> The new CRC module is quite a bit larger, due to larger tables.
>> There's also an #define for that: NOBYFOUR.
>
>It seems to me that the faster CRC was one of the reasons they upgraded
>to 1.2.1, and if they #define NOBYFOUR, they will just get back to the
>algorithm from 1.1.4. So they probably don't want that. (But it's good
>to know why the build is larger.)

Yes, we understood that, and can accept tradeoffs.  In
this case it appears that the speed gain outweighs the 8k of increased
code size.

Glenn