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From: hwt@bwdlh490.BNR.CA (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Compressed executables
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Date: 25 Jan 91 14:34:56 GMT
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Of course, if you can implement compression in special hardware between the 
disk and the CPU, you can do this with no impact on CPU performance.

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