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From: "Josh Haglund" <lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: UPX
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 01:03:36 -0500
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Yes i strip crafty.exe it shrunk it about 120Kb then I used upx It did speed
crafty up a hair, but not always is right. I built is myself alright.

8>)
Josh Haglund
lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com


----- Original Message -----
From: AndrewJ <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: UPX


> > It was easier than it seemed. I just unziped it and draged it to upx.
> > I shrunk it too 200 kb so thats good. I sped crafty up a little bit.
> > Does anyone know any more ways to speed up crafty?
>
> Rewrite the code using better methods and algorithms.  Compressing a file
> doesn't speed it up, it actually slows it down (at startup), although with
UPX
> it's not too bad, since UPX's decompression speed is fairly quick.
>
> To make it smaller, did you 'strip' the final executable?  This assumes,
of
> course, that you built it yourself with DJGPP.
>
> Oh, and if you do a lot of work in a DOS box, you might do well to put UPX
in
> the /WINDOWS/COMMAND or %DJDIR%/BIN directories.  Drag 'n drop... phegh, I
spit
> at drag 'n drop.  <g>
>
> AndrewJ
>
>