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		the_precipitate 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page ... And you do know that .exe file is wasteful, .com file actually saves quite a few bytes if you can limit your executable's size to be smaller than 0xFF00h (man, I am old).

cout 6 months ago [–]

And a.out format often saves disk space over elf, despite duplicating code across executables.

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