OpenEuphoria

?exe-compressor for E.?

• Posted by Robert Craig <72614.1667 at COMPUSERVE.COM> Jan 05, 1997
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Alexander Yakovlev writes:
> I'm just wondering if someone has tried an exe-compressor on a bound Euphoria
> executable. I've been tinkering with a few such compressors, including Ain,

Something to keep in mind:
   1. ex.exe is already a compressed executable.
      I use the .exe compression option that's part of the Causeway
      DOS extender package. Without compression I believe ex.exe would
      be about 100K larger.
   2. The shrouded code that is tacked onto the end of ex.exe when
      you bind a Euphoria program, is fairly compact. It consists
      of short variable names, byte-codes for keywords, no comments
      or extra blanks etc.

Conclusion: You can probably compress a bound Euphoria program a bit more,
but don't expect to save very much. Of course there may be other reasons for
compressing it, such as enhanced security.

Regards,
  Rob Craig
  Rapid Deployment Software