Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/09/15:35:34
Hi everyone,
mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl wrote:
>
> 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 was thinking about DoubleSpacing my hard drive a few months ago and
read about that kind of a result, it really depends on how fast your
processor is compared to you disk. If you have a fast processor it's
better to have compressed files. Like you said they'll load faster since
it has to read less of the disk, however, if you have a slow processor
it could make it take longer than without compression obviously.
> I upx-ed the Emacs executable and it loads much faster now.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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