On 26 Nov 00, at 15:06, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
Saving space is always a good idea. This compression is actually
better than ZIP compression, so when the distribution zipfile includes the
smaller executable, it too becomes smaller: from 405953 bytes to 299756
bytes. This makes the
True, but...
a) I prefer to download files in a form which can be unpacked by
"standard" software - which includes zip - rather than relying on
inbuilt executable code. This is more secure, and makes the download
process less platform dependent.
Well, any platform that can run Prime95's
This 'Wonderful' compression technology maybe "Awesome"; however, MY main
objection or perhaps philosophy towards all of this is that Prime95 is
not a large
piece of code. It takes a relatively small amount of time to download over
a modem
compared to other software items that we modem
Jeramy Ross wrote:
This 'Wonderful' compression technology maybe "Awesome"; however, MY main
objection or perhaps philosophy towards all of this is that Prime95 is
not a large
piece of code. It takes a relatively small amount of time to download over
a modem
compared to other
I discovered something interesting. The most recent Prime95 executable is
very large, 1212928 bytes long. However, if I use UPX (Ultimate Packer for
eXecutables, upx.tsx.org) with the --best option, I can compress Prime95
down to 238542 bytes! That's about 20% of its original size. The
