Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:33:10 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: pad2369 <pad2369 AT iperbole DOT bologna DOT it>
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Subject: Re: [WANTED]Old GCC/GXX's
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, pad2369 wrote:

> Unstripped binaries not only occupy more disk space, but
> they also need more downloading time (expecially with
> slow connections like 14.4. modems it makes big 
> difference).
> 
> I think it wouldn't bad to have both versions (with
> and without symbols) in the download area, so that
> it is possible to download the stripped one (ok, this
> means you cannot symify it, but this is also true
> if you strip it on your hard disk :-)
> 

We'll I tested with gcc2952b.zip (my latest not released build, so don't
look for exactly same sizes in DJGPP distribution):

                                                                    
original size:		                        1909745 bytes
after stripping and zipping again:	        1729747 bytes
after packing exe files with UPX and zipping:   1564888 bytes (upx -9)

Even with 14.4K modem it will take only some minutes more. I think having
2 different binary archives is worse.

Also if You strip executables (or compress with UPX) on HDD and want to
use symify You still can unpack archive once more to do that (of course if
You haven't deleted it)

Andris