Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 04:58:40 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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On Fri, 26 May 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> On Tue, 23 May 2000 22:42:33 GMT, "AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
> wrote:
> >it actually slows it down (at startup), although with UPX it's
> >not too bad, since UPX's decompression speed is fairly quick.
> 
> Quicker than the transfer rate of certain slow media, in fact.

Actually from what I have seen the compressed GCC/GPP loads faster from
even modern day HDD's than the uncompressed version.....

Grendel

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