This morning I did a bit research after the help files, I hope it sheds some
light on the WHY for the recent CHM efforts:
html html
help package size on disk(k) real size(k) chm(k)
rtl 38816 22096 1865
lcl 107404 72499 5227
fcl 8548 5148 445
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All 154768 99743 7537
The disk is NTFS, so probably 4kb clustersize.
Total html bzip2'ed : 2.9MB or so
Total html zipped : 25MB
total chm bzip2'ed : 6,7MB
Extraction time html: 1 minute+ (Core 2 6600 (2.4GHz), winXP's unzip)
Extraction time chm : not measurable.
Note that while the bzip2 archive is very small, it must be unpacked
entirely before use, contrary to either zip (in theory you could open the
zip and extract only the one file) and chm (which has several indexes
internally too, the unpacked chm is possibly larger than the html due to
this)
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