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To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... 
From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>
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> From:		Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> 
Mike Smith wrote:
> gzipped binaries are actually a terrible idea; they actually *waste* 
> space in most cases.

Suprising,  They saved space for a 200M disc in a 486 laptop with 3.[2,3,or4],
it was so tight for space I gzipped everything, (entire output of src/ except
kernel), to save space to then install X/ or something else big.
That laptop has now gone to 4.0, & aout to elf, & a 1.5G disc, so no incentive 
to do it all again to see how much FreeBSD-4 gzipped aout binary tree might
save/waste on a whole tree.  BTW I was `strip'ing everything, did not use
more than standard optimiser, & didnt compile with -g.
Script I used is on http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/gzip_bins

Julian
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