Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-jaws!kaiser From: kaiser@jaws.DEC (Pete Kaiser 225-5441 HLO2-1/N10) Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: Unix on a 785 Message-ID: <152@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 09:01:15 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.152 Posted: Thu Dec 6 09:01:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:32:47 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 12 I also speeded up all user software at one installation. The method is quite simple, and I recommend it to any installation whose CPU and disk resources are nearing exhaustion: From every user program remove every fourth bit, and compact the result. The speedup (as measured in CPU seconds used by these programs, and the time from initiation to completion of each run) was in many cases far greater than 300%. ---Pete