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by jared0x90 3174 days ago
Funny to see this here, it's been ages since I've seen UPX mentioned. In the early 2000's I had written some software whose executable was around a megabytes or maybe several megabytes in size coming out of VB6. On one of mid 90's test laptops we used at the time to ensure it would run on even the crummiest of machines it launched NOTICEABLY faster when packed with UPX. The hard disk in that machine was so incredibly slow loading less off the disk and decompressing the executable in RAM was easily an order of magnitude faster.