[Interest] Qt .dlls size reduction

Rafael Machado rafaelrodrigues.machado at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 20:48:23 CEST 2015


Hi Everyone.
Just found what Thiago mentioned:

http://apps.icu-project.org/datacustom/ICUData53.html

I'm checking how to reduce ICU and webkit + qt now

Thanks everyone for the help.

Em sex, 7 de ago de 2015 às 14:46, Rafael Machado <
rafaelrodrigues.machado at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi Everyone.
> Thanks for all these information. It's being really helpfull!
>
> Thiago Macieira or someone else
> Could you please send me the link to the ICU tools you mentioned ? I tried
> at the ICU website, but didn't find. Just find information on how to
> compile the project.
>
> Em sex, 7 de ago de 2015 às 13:25, Thiago Macieira <
> thiago.macieira at intel.com> escreveu:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>>
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