pack and speed of execution

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From: gng
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 19:52

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Does the pack compression program slow down the execution of a program?  I've
been hearing things like this from some people, but I'm not entirely too sure
who to believe.  At the moment, I'm not packing any of my programs (flash,
wordup, etc) because of speed performances (loading) but with such savings in
'K', I'm very tempted to... ;-]

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Subject: pack and speed of execution
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Date: 12 Oct 89 19:52:44 GMT
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