On 8/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:46:43AM -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> > On 8/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:21:26AM -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> [...]
> > Yes, understood. It would be nice to avoid the expansion until actual
> > use, so that the process's address space isn't inflated for images
> > that are only occassionally used.
>
> Hmm. But when expanding, you'd end up with double (well 1 + 5/8) the
> inflation of address space, since you get to keep the compressed image
> around (of course, if it is cleverly done, the MM would know that the
> compressed part is read-only and thus discardable from physical memory).
>
> >                                   There's also the consideration the
> > the binary's disk footprint grows, which is significant when dealing
> > with embedded apps.
>
> Seems you'll have to do the png decoding yourself :-(

Yes, I suspected this from the outset too. Thanks for the comments.

>
> regards
> -- tomás
>
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