Hi, On 7/10/11, Michael B. Brutman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/10/2011 10:25 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> Op 7-7-2011 13:58, Michael B. Brutman schreef: >>> Mike >> Mike, >> >> do you have any experience using UPX (executable file compressor) on >> your programs? I'm wondering if >> 1) programs still load properly for you on 8086 >> 2) smaller disksize + in-memory-decryption faster than loading entire >> file. > > That looks very promising - I will test it out. I imagine that > decompression time on the smaller machines is a little longer, but that > is offset by that much less disk I/O. And the smaller machines are > often tight on storage.
Of course, you're right, the only way to know is to test. However, I'm skeptical; it probably won't be painless. Anyways, just from (barely related) experience, I found that my old 486 was only really slow (with LZMA) on really big DJGPP .EXE files (several MB), other smaller utils didn't show any obvious slowdown. So be sure to try with "--ultra-brute --lzma --8086" as well as "--best --8086" or even "--ultra-brute --8086". (Or perhaps "--ultra-brutman", heheheh.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
