Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!rreiner
From: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: LZEXE - Is it too good to be true?
Message-ID: <9847@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 01:29:49 GMT
References: <4953@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <10262@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <NELSON.90Apr9224129@image.clarkson.edu>
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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

>I wouldn't say "greatly increased" [startup time of LZEXE'd files]

You're right; I spoke before I had done any careful measurements.
Here's what my measurements showed:

Program: jove.exe.  Uncompressed size: 104K.  Compressed size: 64K.
Test: load and immediately exit.

Hardware: 12MHz v20, 28ms 240K/sec disk.

Times:  uncompressed	compressed
	2.4 sec		3.5 sec


Hardware: 4.77 Mhz 8088, same disk:

Times:  uncompressed	compressed
	5.1 sec		7.6 sec


Hardware: 4.77 MHz 8088, 360K floppy drive:

Times:  uncompressed	compressed
	10.7 sec	10.8 sec


--richard