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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PKLITE, what's the catch???
Message-ID: <3492@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 91 20:02:20 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.141813.29418@midway.uchicago.edu> <11230004@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <11230004@hplsla.HP.COM> ericb@hplsla.HP.COM (Eric Backus) writes:

| Catches:
| 	1. Compressed files take longer to execute (the bigger the
| 	   executable, the bigger the delay).

  I assume you mean that they take longer to load, I can't see any
theory which would make them run more slowly. And, as someone noted here
recently, I many cases they load faster off a floppy, since the CPU is
faster than the i/o.

  I'm not disagreeing, but trying to clarify. I recently compressed a
bunch of stuff to make it fit on an emergency boot floppy, and it does
load a bit faster on a fast machine.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  GE Corp R&D Center, Information Systems Operation, tech support group
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