Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:47:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: "Oleg V. Volkov" <rover@lglobus.ru> Cc: Matthias Buelow <mkb@altair.mayn.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there correct way for program to read from itself? Message-ID: <19991119214737.A3558@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991119231120.A69591@fly.lglobus.ru> References: <19991118152324.37840@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991118232846.A63288@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118154736.22915@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991119002759.B63288@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991118172315.02758@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991119012822.A63914@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991119111026.11577@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991119220338.B68540@fly.lglobus.ru> <19991119201806.A442@altair.mayn.de> <19991119231120.A69591@fly.lglobus.ru>
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Oleg V. Volkov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 08:18:06PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
>
>> Executable compressor? I thought DOS with tiny floppies was dead?
>> :) I don't think such a thing is useful; if it works at all, if
>> would dynamically generate the actual executable segments (code,
>> data, bss and whatever is hiding in today's elf stuff) defeating
>> the system's cache mechanisms for sharing code pages among multiple
>> running processes of the same executable image etc. which might
>> especially be critical since you probably want to compress very large
>> object files. Other disadvantages might come into action. I don't
>> think it makes sense at all generally in the days of very cheap
>> multi-gigabyte disks and object files contribute only marginally to
>> a typical filesystem fillage (mp3 files collections being much more
>> space hungry on many personal systems).
>
> [...] BTW do not forget about bandwidth downloading 8mb and 1,5 mb
> makes difference on 64k not to mention worse connections.
What the hell has this got to do with anything? You download a gzipped
copy of the executable, and then gunzip it and save it somewhere on your
disk, uncompressed. Why does the executable have to be compressed after
downloading? It seems stupid to me.
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