Compressed executables

[Victor Gavin]

In article <3977 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <118868 at uunet.UU.NET> rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>>I once suggested to Chris Torek that the kernel should execute
>>compressed programs. He groaned.
>
>This has been done by Acorn in their RISC iX port of 4.3.  The compression
>is done in such a way that the file can still be demand paged.  

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.

Every Acorn person I ask this question of, waffles and side-tracks.


		vic