To quote Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>,
> #include <hallo.h>
> Josip Rodin wrote on Sat Apr 21, 2001 um 04:29:21PM:
> > > the decompression time is not tragical, its about 0.15s for ddd
(3.15meg)
> > > on Athlon-1000. Or 0.002s on a small application (exmidi, 88kB).
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~
> > This is some sort of common platform? I mean, it sure would be great
if
>
> Not really. For testing, I installed UPX on my old 486 (clocked with
> 50Mhz or so, 16MB RAM and enough load without UPX), there it takes 4-7
> seconds to decompress ddd. And ~0.1-0.2s for exmidi. Anyways, I would
> not run monsters like ddd on this machines at all.
>
> > majority of users had a 1GHz processor. World peace would be great,
too. :)
>
> People don't run very big apps on very week machines, so the extra
load
> caused by upx stuff is "justifiable", IMHO.
Conversely, people who have computers that can use UPX without any
noticeable slowdown probably have plenty of hard drive space :)
David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
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