Can you run with -v and see which parts are the slowest. I often run with "-sval" when doing repeated builds because it slows things down a lot.
If you can provide a bit more scientific data then that will help us know which parts actually need improvements. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Craighead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 14:01 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] light.exe performance 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
