[buug] Gentoo, Bluecurve and Linux too!

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Oct 18 18:52:19 PDT 2002


Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick at zork.net):

> So it's generally true that source code is a less efficient storage
> format for code than compiled binaries.  Source code often also
> contains code segments for each platform, of which only one segment
> will be included.

Yes, but, on the other hand, ISOs (which were my point of comparison)
include a great deal that doesn't get installed -- if you have any
sense, anyway.




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