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Add this thought into the mix:
Scripts are compiled into a bytecode format, but the original script code is still included in plaintext in a compiled standalone. What would the implications be for stripping the plaintext script code from a stack as it is converted into a standalone?
Obviously this would need to be an option, since some apps may actually want to read those scripts even after they are made into standalones, but I suspect that for 90% or more of us, that would reduce the final app size by about half or so.
Any thoughts? Is this worth BZing an enh req for?
On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Derek Bump wrote:
Thank you all for the suggestions. Now I have a place to look for my "installer". I did not realize that the license.rev stack was the home stack. I always thought it was the menubar, but now it all makes sense.
As far as custom dialogs not taking up a lot of space, that is simply not true. Let's say for instance that in a standalone you intend to have, at the most, 20 custom dialogs. If they average out to a slim size of just 4k, then that amounts to 80k total.
With my dialogs, they usually end up being about 6k in size, and I have at least 14 different ones, so about 84k. Making a common dialog system, which comes out to only about 10k total, is a much better solution for saving space.
Combine that with other simple space saving habits like using abbreviated code, removing comments and white space from scripts, and having 1 card with all images on it and buttons that reference each image, ultimately helped me reduce my standalone's file size by almost 200k.
200K may not be much, but it's a huge improvement considering the size of the engine alone.
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$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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