On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 3:24 PM Eric Auer wrote: > [..] > > > > IA16-GCC: 19728 Bytes (19 kiB) > > Watcom: 20544 Bytes (20 kiB) > > Turbo C++: 17510 Bytes (17 kiB) > > How about the UPX-UCL compressed size differences, by the way? >
I've always wondered about the performance impact of UPX, but haven't really explored it. Maybe someone else has. I get that a UPX'd EXE will be smaller -- but don't you also get a performance hit every time you run the program, because the EXE needs to be decompressed before it can run? Maybe that's not a big deal for a larger "desktop" app like a spreadsheet or editor or word processor, but is UPX "worth it" for common tools that you run all the time? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
