Re: Better compression for the Windows installer

[Memphis Bytes <memphisbytes () gmail com>]

On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:12 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>  
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:04:03PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:37:36PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> > > How does this sound? At the end of this message is the output of
> > > makensis.exe using the different options.
> >
> > It sounds wonderful!  Thanks for testing.  As you know from our
> > investigation today, the Nmap Windows executables are the biggest
> > bandwidth hogs on the site.  I like the idea of enabling this on the
> > Pcap installer too if it helps.
>
> I committed lzma compression for the nmap installer. Here are the
> results of testing it on the winpcap-nmap installer.
>
> zlib         720288
> lzma /SOLID  433535  60.19% of zlib
>
> And here is the effect on the overall nmap installer.
>
> zlib-compressed winpcap-nmap  14225186
> lzma-compressed winpcap-nmap  13947278  98.05% of version with zlib-
>                                        compressed winpcap-nmap, 82.91%
>                                        of original zlib everything.
>
> David Fifield
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I KNEW it !!!! Smaller IS better!!

Sorry couldn't resist and we sometimes neglect humor )

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