From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: e: Why the executables r so big ????
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:55:52 -0700
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Varence wrote:
> 
>   Packers like UPX don't improve your binary's performance
> in any way.  They pack the binary (as the name suggests) so
> it's compressed.  It doesn't do any optimization on the
> code or change how the routines are used within it.
>     So essentially, not only does packing a binary not
> improve it's performance, it actually adds a small overhead
> at initialization for the unpacking process.

But that is balanced by the faster load time, since only 200K might have
to be read off the disk instead of 700K.  So it could make the program
"seem" faster.
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Nate Eldredge
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