Some people are never satisfied..

and keep asking for more ;)

Case in question, new app to go, and greatly improved striper, which
produces much smaller executables.  I hve been reading the annaouncement for
PECompact (http://www.collakesoftware.com) , and I thought how nice it would
be to apply it on dolphin generated programs, but I have realized that it
will probably not work on Dolphin apps, since they read the image from the
program file that is well, scrambled.

But then occured to me that "dolphin to go" could do that (compress the
image, and uncompress it on the startup), maybe evem PECompact library can
be used for it? I know that hour is late, and that is probably impossible to
squize it in, but it could really bring dolphin executables down even more
in size. Think how we could brag about our Dolphin then ;)

Davorin Rusevljan

Out of curiosity - what does it do to a "packaged to go" image?  Does it
work?

jlo

"rush" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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>
> and keep asking for more ;)
>
> Case in question, new app to go, and greatly improved striper, which
> produces much smaller executables.  I hve been reading the annaouncement
for
> PECompact (http://www.collakesoftware.com) , and I thought how nice it
would
> be to apply it on dolphin generated programs, but I have realized that it
> will probably not work on Dolphin apps, since they read the image from the
> program file that is well, scrambled.
>
> But then occured to me that "dolphin to go" could do that (compress the
> image, and uncompress it on the startup), maybe evem PECompact library can
> be used for it? I know that hour is late, and that is probably impossible
to
> squize it in, but it could really bring dolphin executables down even more
> in size. Think how we could brag about our Dolphin then ;)
>
> Davorin Rusevljan
>
>
>

"Jeffrey Odell" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Out of curiosity - what does it do to a "packaged to go" image?  Does it
> work?

I must say I have not tried it; it looked to me as extremely unlikely that
it would work.

Davorin

Davorin,

> and keep asking for more ;)
>
> Case in question, new app to go, and greatly improved striper, which
> produces much smaller executables.  I hve been reading the annaouncement
for
> PECompact (http://www.collakesoftware.com) , and I thought how nice it
would
> be to apply it on dolphin generated programs, but I have realized that it
> will probably not work on Dolphin apps, since they read the image from the
> program file that is well, scrambled.
>
> But then occured to me that "dolphin to go" could do that (compress the
> image, and uncompress it on the startup), maybe evem PECompact library can
> be used for it? I know that hour is late, and that is probably impossible
to
> squize it in, but it could really bring dolphin executables down even more
> in size. Think how we could brag about our Dolphin then ;)

Thanks for the suggestion but we won't have time to try this out before the
D5 release. How about someone trying it to see if it (a) works as it stands
and (b) makes much difference to the EXE size? If there's any benefit then
perhaps we can think about integrating more closely with PECompact in the
future.

(anyway, I like to think you can still brag about Dolphin *now*)

Best Regards,

Andy Bower
Object Arts Ltd.
http://www.object-arts.com
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"Andy Bower" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Davorin,
> (anyway, I like to think you can still brag about Dolphin *now*)

well I certanly do :)

Davorin Rusevljan

FWIW, I did a quick download of that software last night and ran it on a
beta5 executable.  The size differential was amazing -- 700K to 100K.
Unfortunately, the exe wouldn't run.  I didn't try it on any non-Dolphin
exes.

I brag too anyway.

"Louis Sumberg" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> FWIW, I did a quick download of that software last night and ran it on a
> beta5 executable.  The size differential was amazing -- 700K to 100K.
> Unfortunately, the exe wouldn't run.  I didn't try it on any non-Dolphin
> exes.

One wonders if it has detached something it was not supposed to do. But high
compressions seem expectable since plain zip also reduces the size of  *.img
files considerably (resulting zip is 30-40% of the original img). Anyway, as
some of my friends used to joke, if running compressed program correctly is
not an requirement, I could compress it much better, even to 1 byte ;)


Thanks for trying it out.

Davorin Rusevljan