[Interest] Qt .dlls size reduction

Gunnar Roth gunnar.roth at gmx.de
Fri Aug 7 18:17:28 CEST 2015


> Am 08.08.2015 um 00:46 schrieb Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> 
> 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.
> 
Not using icu on windows at all seems to me the better option. Or what do I lose?

Regarda,
Gunnar Roth


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