From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: UPX
Date: 24 May 2000 10:26:20 -0700
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buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner) writes:

> AndrewJ wrote:
> 
> >> It was easier than it seemed. I just unziped it and draged it to upx.
> >> I shrunk it too 200 kb so thats good. I sped crafty up a little bit.
> >> Does anyone know any more ways to speed up crafty?
> 
> I think, that the speedup must have been due to other things (perhaps
> less system load). What do you mean by a little bit?

Compressing a program with UPX or the like can speed up *loading* a
bit, since it may well be faster to uncompress the code than to load
an additional several hundred K from disk.  But it shouldn't change
the running time at all.

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Nate Eldredge
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