OpenEuphoria

Re: open_dll prob

• Posted by Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at ATT.NET> Aug 05, 2000
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For what it's worth department - RDS uses, I seem to recall, such
a program to make the euphoria EXE's smaller. I've read (but not
confirmed) that one common "side effect" of such programs is to
interfere with Windoz' control of "dynamic memory allocation."
Essentially, the claim is - I believe - that Windoz can no longer
identify unused modules and/or routines and move them out to
virtual memory. Given that Windoz' control is somewhat spotty
even without "interference," this might be an issue. I used to
have a couple of URLs for sites that discussed the issue but lost
them awhile back. You could probably find some with a search, if
the question interests you sufficiently.

Hawke' wrote:

>      Also, Hawke wrote... >i have seen dll's that had
>      compression applied to themwith various utilities
>      that claim there is no 'apparent' differenceto the
>      dll as far as functionality, but yet the dll is 10%
>      or moresmaller after using these exotic compression
>      programs...*cough* they dont work right
>      *cough* Interesting. What "unzip" software are you
>      using? It was zipped withPower Archiver (I
>      think....it may have been winzip, I have both)Could
>      the unzip software be messing up the dll? i wasnt
>      referring to the program used to unzip the
>      distribution package... i was referring to programs
>      like PKLite that will compress an executableon your
>      hard drive, thusly making it require less storage
>      space on disk,but supposedly retain full
>      functionality and speed... there are programs like
>      that for .dll's as well... the idea is that you run
>      these programs on your entire set of dlls(in like
>      windows/system) and instamagically you now have
>      morefree disk space WITHOUT (supposedly) any overhead
>      normallyattributed to programs like Stacker or
>      Drivespace that performon_the_fly
>      compression/expansion as this is 'permanent'
>      compressionrequireing no expansion... many many
>      programmers DO use this type of software -before-
>      theycreate the distribution package and ship it
>      off...wouldnt surprise me a bit if morfit.dll was
>      placed thru such a processbefore the distribution
>      package was made... some computers simply chokeNpuke
>      when they attempt to access.exe and .dll that are
>      compressed in this manner and as i stated before...
>      99% of these instamagic compressionprograms *cough*
>      dont work right *cough* --Hawke'
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