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From: carlf@agora.rain.com (Carl Fago)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PKLITE, what's the catch???
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.160512.25404@agora.rain.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 16:05:12 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.141813.29418@midway.uchicago.edu> <11230004@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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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).

What I have found is that even with a slow machine (8088 at 4.77 MHz) the time
savings in disk reads during loading substantially makes up for any 
executable slow down while decompressing.  Maybe its my imagination but
it sure seems faster overall to me.


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