Compressed executables

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1991Jan23.123808.22159 at grep.co.uk> vic at grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) 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.

It seems pretty clear that it's trading cpu time for disk space and
disk accesses.  On a reasonably fast workstation with small slow
disks, it seems likely to be a winning tradeoff.

-- Richard
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