Alexander Hvostov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since UPX only runs when a program is loaded, and only takes a few seconds >to do its thing, I see no reason why weaker (eg, 486) machines couldn't >handle it. Even on old 386 machines, the slowdown shouldn't be much of a >headache, unless what's being compressed is a very frequently executed >program (like `ls'), in which case it'd be better not to UPX it. > >In any event, UPX shouldn't matter to people with fast machines (who have >plenty of disk space and plenty of CPU power), and would benefit people >with small disk drives (who can probably live with the small load time >delay). >For these reasons, I agree with the sentiment that UPX should be used on >almost all (if not all) executables shipped with Debian.
The reliability aspects (executables suddenly start failing if you temporarily run out of hard disk space in /tmp or wherever) would be a killer for me. (Given this, compressing /bin/rm would be extremely foolish. :)) Incidentally, I assume the temporarily decompressed executables created by UPX are mode 700? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
