On 10 May 2009, at 19:37, Chuck 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.
For comparison, some totals for building multiple packages here: high > 478 seconds > 83MB low > 461 seconds > 100MB The main slowness is because I'm running in a VM running 2003 server. The times are closer than I thought, but either way I'm getting lots of coffee breaks ;-) Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
