1. Producing smaller exe's
I was wondering whether the whole of ex.exe is included when you BIND a file.
The thing is, a lot of the compile-time stuff is redundant after binding, and
must make up a significant proportion of the final executable. The best way
of shrinking files (ie so people bother to download them off your web site)
has got to be decreasing the amount taken up by the interpreter itself.
I am sure RDS will have their own ideas on this subject so I await your
responses.
Daniel Johnson, Les Mailles Telesoft, Coventry, England
2. Re: Producing smaller exe's
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Dec 04, 1997
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Last edited Dec 05, 1997
Daniel Johnson writes:
> I was wondering whether the whole of ex.exe is included when you
> BIND a file.
>The thing is, a lot of the compile-time stuff is redundant after binding,
> and must make up a significant proportion of the final executable.
Yes, the whole of ex.exe (or exw.exe) is included.
It would be possible for me to produce a "stripped-down"
version of ex.exe that would omit some compile-time
stuff and the debugging (tracing) and profiling stuff. I once calculated
how much I could eliminate, and concluded
that it wouldn't be all that much (maybe 20%). Furthermore, it would
make life more complicated for me if I had to build and distribute
PD and Complete *and* "stripped-down" versions of both
ex.exe and exw.exe.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
