Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:01:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... Message-ID: <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:37:40 %2B0200." <200007261337.NAA70530@park.jhs.no_domain>
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> > From: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> > Mike Smith wrote: > > gzipped binaries are actually a terrible idea; they actually *waste* > > space in most cases. > > Suprising, They saved space for a 200M disc in a 486 laptop with 3.[2,3,or4], No, that's the one case where they help. But people aren't trying to squeeze whole systems into small disks anymore; they're trying to run cut-down systems in tiny spaces (where the fact that you have to unpack the entire binary into memory hurts), or disk space is so cheap that the speed/swap hit is the only impacting factor. Typically, the loss of the ability to demand-page from a gzipped executable is a worse detracting factor than the space saving makes up for. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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