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I hate to bring this up since it isn't the most important issue in our lives these
days, but just for fun..
Demo.exe I got a 604KB exe
After UPX 187KB
That was with the -CX and -XX options in the command line, along with
strip demo.exe
Anyone get similar results?
Pretty good size for a cross platform app, and I wonder if Martin has already
worked
on tweaking the libraries for smartlinking, or whether there has been no work done
there (i.e. room for optimization or is this already been optimized? )
In addition to my above comments, measuring size is actually different in this case, because we have to consider that the program above is a special program in that it does not use native windows controls AFAIK? i.e. not using ComDlg32.dll and similar (whereas notepad and delphi apps do, so this hides some of the exe size in the dll with delphi programs and it isn't a fair comparison).
So a 600kb exe may actually mean that there is 600kb of true native controls in the exe, whereas notepad/delphi applications store a lot of their native controls in other dlls on the windows machine.
Martin, are components mostly custom windows API graphic screen calls? My tools tell me your programs do not rely on ComDlg32.dll and ComCtl32.dll (which is obvious considering there are no windows-ish looking dialogs and controls in the program). Hey I'll look into the source too, to try find out, but it's also interesting to discuss these issues in english too :)
i.e. in a delphi hello world Exe you immediately pull in comctl32.dll whereas in this IDE you do NOT pull in comctl32.dll, so considerations need to be made.
One other thing I noticed is mpr.dll gets pulled in with demo.exe but in a delphi hello world it does not. What code in demo.exe does rely on mpr.exe, is I wonder?
Again, none of these issues are *really* important at this point in time. I'm really just over-analyzing - but interesting none the less.
