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> As I've said before, I will not be using upx for BL3.
>   
Decide which advantage/disadvantage is more important:

Advantages of UPX:

UPX does not use any additional RAM during decompression.
Total loading time is a bit smaller if UPX-ed program is loaded from 
hard disk
More space available on hard/ram disk for other programs

Disadvantages of UPX:

Total loading time is  bigger if if UPX-ed program is loaded from RAM disk
Command ldd does not show libraries linked with upx-ed program
Ramdisk compressed with gzip results in slightly bigger gz file if upx 
is used.
I did not verify, but somewhere it is written that UPX-ed programs do 
not work on 386 computers.