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[John Arbash Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>  * Examine impact of deflating library.zip instead of just using store
>    * Shrinks from 16MB to around 6MB - effect on installer size?
>    * Slower or faster startup?

Most likely a larger installer, since it uses lzma for the installer
versus 'deflate' for .zip. Not to mention that .zip is 'deflate' *per
file* rather than lzma across the whole thing.

Not sure about the magnitude of the difference.

As for 'slower' or 'faster' startup. I would posit:
 1) a bit faster cold cache startup
 2) a bit slower hot cache startup

Since you are trading CPU time during deflate versus disk time on cold
cache, and memory time on hot cache.


>  * Almost certainly also worth enabling solid compression option in Inno
> Setup script (off by default)
>  * Avoid cygwin (it is rather large and slightly clunky)

I don't think cygwin has ever been recommended. It is not only clunky
but the final executable is *much* slower because of all the cygwin path
translation overhead.

John
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