Replacing Answer/Ask

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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Add this thought into the mix:

Scripts are compiled into a bytecode format, but the original script 
code is still included in plaintext in a compiled standalone.  What 
would the implications be for stripping the plaintext script code from 
a stack as it is converted into a standalone?

Obviously this would need to be an option, since some apps may actually 
want to read those scripts even after they are made into standalones, 
but I suspect that for 90% or more of us, that would reduce the final 
app size by about half or so.

Any thoughts?  Is this worth BZing an enh req for?


On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Derek Bump wrote:

> Thank you all for the suggestions.  Now I have a place to look for my 
> "installer".  I did not realize that the license.rev stack was the 
> home stack.  I always thought it was the menubar, but now it all makes 
> sense.
>
> As far as custom dialogs not taking up a lot of space, that is simply 
> not true.  Let's say for instance that in a standalone you intend to 
> have, at the most, 20 custom dialogs.  If they average out to a slim 
> size of just 4k, then that amounts to 80k total.
>
> With my dialogs, they usually end up being about 6k in size, and I 
> have at least 14 different ones, so about 84k.  Making a common dialog 
> system, which comes out to only about 10k total, is a much better 
> solution for saving space.
>
> Combine that with other simple space saving habits like using 
> abbreviated code, removing comments and white space from scripts, and 
> having 1 card with all images on it and buttons that reference each 
> image, ultimately helped me reduce my standalone's file size by almost 
> 200k.
>
> 200K may not be much, but it's a huge improvement considering the size 
> of the engine alone.
>
>
> Derek Bump
> Dreamscape Software
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$
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