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Hello, Wojtek!
>> > I wonder if it is possible to use the Pac subsustem to reduce some
>> > or all of those sizes further?
>> >
>> I think it's difficult in general. But any module can make IO through
>> CpcCompressors. If it does so, the files it uses are smaller, and if
>> these files are packed in the exe, this latter is smaller too.
WS> This is an excellent thing to do, but it goes opposite to Stan's
WS> proposition of using XML. I would expect an ASCII-based, human-readable
WS> format to bring a significant inflation of the file sizes.
We are talking about compiled modules. How are they going to be
affected by XML? They must not be human-readable, but rather
CPU-executable.
Or do I get something wrong?
I just thought of packing _compressed_ modules into EXE instead of
uncompressed ones. XML may be used to store documents, not binary
modules.
By the way, did anyone actually use Microsoft's XML SDK? I am now
working in a team which recently begun using it (not me personally,
though). I heard from teammates that while creating an XML file it
uses about 10 times more memory than the resulting file will be
(i.e. 12Mb output file = 120Mb RAM while generating it). That is
from 4Mb binary source file (which is about the same size to keep in
memory). Excel and Internet Explorer crash when try to open the
result.
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