From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 26 13: 1:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7266B37BE1D; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:01:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05385; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:00:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13499; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:00:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:00:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007262000.OAA13499@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: "Julian Stacey" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... In-Reply-To: <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200007261337.NAA70530@park.jhs.no_domain> <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: 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], > > No, that's the one case where they help. But people aren't trying to > squeeze whole systems into small disks anymore; Really? News to me... > they're trying to run > cut-down systems in tiny spaces (where the fact that you have to unpack > the entire binary into memory hurts), or disk space is so cheap that the > speed/swap hit is the only impacting factor. Methinks you generalize *way* too much, w/out knowing all the facts. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message