• @AeonFelis
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    216 hours ago

    This is true for the code part, but executables can also contain data does compress well and maybe not be compressed inside the EXE (e.g. - to avoid the need to decompress it on every run)

    • @[email protected]
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      13 hours ago

      Well sure but most exes I download are installers, where decompression only needs to happen once.