From: busigin@ibm.net
Subject: Shrinking GNAT OS/2 Executables
Date: 1996/04/06
Date: 1996-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4k4l26$1bs2@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> (raw)
Recently, I tried out a new freeware EXE and DLL file compression utility
LxLite version 1.01 that I downloaded from http://www.os2.hammer.org/OS2.
The results with both GNAT EXE and DLL files has been very excellent. GNAT
EXE and DLL files compress very well. Using the utility, I've seen 250 KB
executables shrink down to 45 KB. Even the GNAT compiler itself shrinks
from more than 2 MB to just over 1 MB in size. Not only does this save a
lot of disk space, but executables load much faster with much less disk I/O.
I've even compressed all the distributed EMX EXE and DLL files with similar
success. I highy recommend the utility to other GNAT users, and suggest that
future GNAT executables also be distributed in compressed form.
Anthony Busigin
NITEK Corporation
E-mail: busigin@ibm.net
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1996-04-06 0:00 busigin [this message]
1996-04-05 0:00 ` Shrinking GNAT OS/2 Executables Robert Dewar
1996-04-06 0:00 ` John Howard
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