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From: andrew@acwbust.incom.de (Andrew Wheadon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Compressed executables
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.031805.721@acwbust.incom.de>
Date: 26 Jan 91 03:18:05 GMT
References: <118868@uunet.UU.NET> <3977@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jan23.123808.22159@grep.co.uk>
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In article <1991Jan23.123808.22159@grep.co.uk> vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes:
>In article <3977@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>And perhaps they could also explain why it doesn't slow the system down, coz if
>the processor has enough time to decompress something coming off the disk, it
>has enough time to go and run another program.
>
>		vic
Welllllll, perhaps they have a slow disk:
The smaller the file, the less time it takes to read from disk, the more time
there is to decompress :-). (Is actually true on some PC's without HD-Caching)
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