Hi! Friday, 15 March, 2002 Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RC> I vote for including UPX... and Lapo makes two. Do we need a third? And RC> are there any objections? Does anybody ever tried to measure if upx impose any performance penalties? If i understand things correctly, upx compress executable file and attach a small "decompressor" stub to it. Then, when executable starts, this stub decompresses original executable image. This will totally defeat the features that most modern OSes have, mapping pages from executable and loading them on demand, sharing common read-only pages between different instances of one application, etc. I really don't understand what's the point in saving disk storage worth several cents (1byte == $1e-7), while increasing memory footprint and reducing speed. Hey, just read upx docs, they contain all these points already. Not that i'm against inclusion of upx to cygwin distro -- it's a normal package like many others after all, but i really don't understand why somebody would want to use such a program. Egor. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
