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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:00:46 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... 
Message-ID:  <200007262000.OAA13499@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
References:  <200007261337.NAA70530@park.jhs.no_domain> <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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> > 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;

Really?  News to me...

> 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.

Methinks you generalize *way* too much, w/out knowing all the facts.



Nate


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