Hi all again.
I was testing again a little bit the problem related to comments and EXE file sizes and I suppose the following things: If I make an EXE file from the project in NSB format, the comments are not stripped out in EXE because the size is near to the NSB project file. If I save the NSB project in TXT format, the file of the TXT is about half of size of the same project in NSB but contains all code and comments... the differences of sizes between the two formats must be because of the code encryption. If I open this TXT generated from the NSB format and I use the NSBasic IDE to make a new EXE from it, then the EXE that results is very smaller than the EXE that appears when you uses the original NSB file (comments now are stripped out, I suppose...) and the original TXT file used (!!!!!!!) is surprisingly saved again without any comments (and without any kind of asking) with the exception of the comments generated by the IDE. My conclussion is that the IDE only generates an EXE without your comments if you first save your project in TXT format and opens it with the IDE to generate the EXE, but it contains the comments generated by the IDE. I don't remember very well, but I think that the size of the EXE may be more smaller if you erases all generated comments in the TXT file. Best regards. To: nsbasic...@yahoogroups.com From: dacars...@hotmail.com Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:53:56 +0000 Subject: RE: [nsbasic-ce] Use of Remarks, REM, or the semicolon and comments Hi all. George, tell me if I am wrong... but when I was testing because of the bug that shows a error in the EXE when the program exceeds certain size limit, I had to make a little program in Visual Basic that erases all comments from my code (saving my project in TXT format before) to "compilate" the EXE file sucesfully. My program with comments included was exceeding the limit that causes the EXE file to not run correctly, but if I erase the comments and I make an EXE from the NSB IDE then the EXE that results was smaller and runs fine. I was testing this fact and I found that the EXE reduces 2 bytes for each character (or byte) of comments. I supposed that the encryption method on NSB format and EXEs was the cause of the "2 bytes reduction" for each byte. I'm wrong??? Best regards. To: nsbasic...@yahoogroups.com From: g...@nsbasic.com Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:08:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [nsbasic-ce] Use of Remarks, REM, or the semicolon and comments Remarks have no effect on execution time. When you make an exe file, they are stripped out of your code, reducing program size. The size of strings and variables is limited by system memory. Programs have a maximum size of 1 or 2 megs, depending on a few things. This is the code itself - variables used at runtime do no count. >Is there any affect on how many remarks can be used in a program? > >Any down side in using alot of remarks? > >Limitation to final file size? > >are they discarded when making an EXE file? > >Any limitations for Strings, variables > >Is there a chart somewhere that illustrates these limits? > >Thanks > > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > Ahora lee tus emails de Hotmail desde tu móvil Vodafone ¡Aquí! _________________________________________________________________ El nuevo Windows Live te une a los que más quieres http://www.windowslive.es --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nsb-ce" group. To post to this group, send email to nsb-ce@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nsb-ce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nsb-ce?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
