From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
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Subject: Re: Hello World and File size
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:59:44 GMT
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Rolf Campbell <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com> wrote:
>> you mean use djp to compress the exe, yes the same speed
>     There will be some slowdown at startup, when the uncompressing is
> happening.

The uncompressing it not noticable, in my experience. Sometime, you
might even get a significant *speedup*, because less data has to be
read from disk. And it fits more easily in the disk cache.

I upx-ed the Emacs executable and it loads much faster now.

Hope this helps.

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Groeten, *Michel*       _http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter_
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