BE DOPE NEWS (BDN) Tracking down unsubstantiated rumors of the BeOS switching to the ELF system, Be Dope reporters were shocked to uncover the actual truth: Be engineers have switched to DWARF for BeOS R4.

DWARF (Death-defying Widgets And Realtime Format) was developed as a theoritcal exercise by engineers at MIT who were surprised to learn of its actual implementation.

"DWARF is a beautifully fast and stable binary file system," said Dr. Gabe Fisher, DWARF project leader. "But we didn't think the technology would exist to take advantage of it for at least a decade. Of course, we hadn't considered the BeOS, which in retrospect was a huge mistake."

"Basically, DWARF slices through ELF like a two-handed broad axe," said a Be engineer. "Once we got DWARF working, there was clearly no alternative."

Early benchmarks of the BeOS compiled via DWARF have it running almost twice as fast as its non-DWARF brethren. Yet, it is a bit less than half the size.

"With DWARF you get a lot of strength and endurance wrapped up in a compact yet hardy package," confirmed a Be engineer. "And for some reason it is especially optimized for data-mining."

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