Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dahlia!swklassen
From: swklassen@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: packer.arc
Summary: effect on execution
Message-ID: <15290@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 89 18:06:18 GMT
References: <575@prles2.UUCP>
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In article <575@prles2.UUCP> meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl () writes:
>Hi!
>
>I fetched packer.arc from the binaries group, and I am impressed.
>Can someone shed a light on how this is achieved? Is this a very small
>compression program which decompresses the remainder of the file??
>

Has anyone done any benchmarks to determine the effects (good/bad/none) of
packer on execution speed?


Steven W. Klassen
Computer Science Major
University of Waterloo