life on a PDA

[WJCarpenter]

>> Would it be feasible to use gzip
>> to compress that data before linking it (or, which I'd prefer, lzo

tf> Great idea ... but what do we really gain?  We get a smaller foot
tf> print for storage (which is something), but in the end our runtime
tf> is still just as large (in fact larger since you now have

You also diminish an important feature of (some) PDAs.  Once you're in
the ROM (or flash) image, some PDAs will do execute-in-place.  As the
name implies, the read-only stuff is executed from ROM/flash instead of
being loaded and executed in RAM.
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