[syslinux] Syslinux 4.06 and 5.00-pre9 Binary Sizes

Ady ady-sf at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 1 22:00:51 PDT 2012


> Grand total: 2,291,814 bytes, or about 2,238.10 KiB or about 2.19 MiB.
> 
 
In Win32, the total size of 4.06 (extracted from the package) is 
close to 20MB (close to twenty megabytes). For 5.00pre9 it would be 
close to 23MB.

> 
> It might be worth noting that since all of the installers contain much 
> common code, they compress when packed together...
> - Shao Miller

That's why I am NOT requesting to compress anything. I was just 
asking if someone would know if there was any detail / matter / issue 
that should need to be considered if I would want (or need) to 
compress some installer (probably with UPX) and use the resulting 
executable. If I understood correctly, there is no known problem for 
me to do it, in case I want to.

Other than that, I leave the potential considerations about 
compressing (or not) any particular file to the development team.

Thanks to all for the replies,
Ady.



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