Another thing to keep in mind is that file types do affect the speed of compression. Do some testing along those lines if you have larger builds. Our team has seen up to 1 1/2 hours come off our cabbing times.
Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Chuck <electroch...@att.net> wrote: > Chris Ridd wrote: > > Yes, the higher compression levels make building the msi much slower. > > If you've got the concept of a "debug" vs "release" build, I'd suggest > > using no compression when debugging, and high when doing a release. > > In the interest of science I ran through the compression levels on the .msi > build of one of my programs. > > Compression Level > Time (seconds) > File Size (MB) > none > 11 > 6.05 > mszip > 11 > 2.25 (default) > low > 11 > 1.91 > medium > 12 > 1.81 > high > 14 > 1.73 > > That's quite a space saving for a few seconds wait. > Windows XP on an AMD running at 2.1 GHz. > > -- > Chuck Brockman > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK > i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
