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From: ericb@hplsla.HP.COM (Eric Backus)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PKLITE, what's the catch???
Message-ID: <11230005@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 91 20:47:22 GMT
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>| 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.

Right, that's what I meant.
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