Compressed executables

Andrew Wheadon andrew at acwbust.incom.de
Sat Jan 26 14:18:05 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jan23.123808.22159 at grep.co.uk> vic at grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes:
>In article <3977 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at 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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