[Interest] Qt .dlls size reduction

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday 08 August 2015 01:17:28 Gunnar Roth wrote:
> > 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?

I never remember what you'd be losing. Probably some detailed timezone 
information, collation and codecs. If you run without it before Vista, you'll 
probably get no QTimeZone support at all.

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center