Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:00:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... Message-ID: <200007262000.OAA13499@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200007261337.NAA70530@park.jhs.no_domain> <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > 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
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