Hi all, I've been frustrated for some time with light.exe's slow performance. My .msi is about 10MB with default compression and about 8MB with highest compression, but it takes ~30 seconds for light.exe to build it even on a fast CPU like a Core 2 Quad. Even with default rather than highest compression, and even with all the ICE checks shut off, it's still quite slow, certainly much slower than building, say, a .tar.bz2 archive of those same files.
-spdb is set, I'm not generating a .wixpdb. I'm using a few merge modules, in case that matters: CRT 8.0 and MFC 8.0 and their corresponding policy modules, plus another one for the TortoiseOverlays shell extension framework for icon overlays. Version 3.0.4513.0. I haven't checked, but it felt like it got worse when I switched to 3.0 from 2.0; that might just have been the ICE checks, though, which I've confirmed have a measurable impact on light.exe runtime. Is there anything more I can do to speed up light.exe? Are there any efforts underway by the Wix developers to speed up light.exe? Thanks, -- Matt Craighead Founder/CEO, Conifer Systems LLC http://www.conifersystems.com 512-772-1834 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
