Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...

[Nate Williams]

> > 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


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