It definitely depends on the project.
Even 100 KBytes less make significant performance to my client-server
auto-update application. Both server has less bytes to send to 100
concurrent connected clients and client can download much faster - there
are still some clients using dial-up or GPRS very slow connections.
On 3/4/2011 6:32 μμ, Fastream Technologies wrote:
I wondered why it is so big problem to have a large exe? Installers already
compress well for bandwidth and an average 1TB HDD costs less than $100!
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On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Dimitris Botsis<db...@otenet.gr> wrote:
On 3/4/2011 5:12 μμ, Arno Garrels wrote:
Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote:
Additionally I used UPX and reduced size of libraries - now it's
better.
Beware that most such file compressors will eventually be used by
virus and trojan writers, and the signatures added to detect any
compressed files as malware.
That's indeed a sad story since compressors/encryptors are also used
to protect against reverse engineering. If you digitally sign packed
binaries with a valid signing certificate chances are higher that they
pass. For instance ClamWin reports a false positive in such case,
otherwise a PUA.
You are absolutely right, but with UPX I did not have any problems until
now. I use it for many years. It only compresses and somehow scrambles.
But I really had problems with other commercial products but these products
did not only compress, some also added something like their own virtual
machine (for reverse-engineering protection) on top of which the program was
loaded so this virtual machine was often considered as suspicious or
virus-like.
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