[Interest] Qt .dlls size reduction
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Aug 7 17:46:04 CEST 2015
On Friday 07 August 2015 09:48:34 Jérôme Godbout wrote:
> Anyway you may want to take a look at the fat icudt5X.dll, this can easily
> be compressed with something like UPX http://upx.sourceforge.net/
> This could save you some space. Another big one are QtWebKit (depending on
> the Qt version).
Compressing icudt is trading off disk space for RAM+swap usage. It's a bad
tradeoff. Do not compress it.
If you need to shrink it, use ICU tools to recreate the database with fewer
entries.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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