> As for UPX terms, I could try LZMA and Ultra Brute settings indeed, but > wonder what effect (decompression possible at all? loading times? memory > uses? does resulting binary work?) they have on ancient machines.
2011-07-11 Michael B. Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com> wrote: > I tested UPX on one of the slowest machines that I have that has a hard > drive. On a PCjr with a NEC V20 and XT-IDE adapter UPX compressed > executables worked, but they took noticeably longer to start up: > FTPSRV: original was 2 seconds, with UPX is 5 seconds > PING: original was 1 second, with UPX is 2 seconds Got the answer ??? - LZMA decompressible on 8086: YES - LZMA vs NRV/UCL: LZMA (much?) slower decompression - Ultra-Brutal-Effect: much slower compression, no performance penalty on decompression (?) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
