Stuff Programmers Love to Play With #1: Executable Compressors

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By CodeJustin
via retrocode.blogspot.com
Published: Jul 01 2009 / 16:03

An exe packer is a utility to reduce the size of executable files. It compresses a program and creates a new program with the compressed data and code to extract and run the original. Commonly used compression techniques include variants of Run Length Encoding and members of the LZ family of algorithms.

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