[gnugo-devel] size of windows executable Gnugo

[Teun Burgers]

Max wrote:

> Currently , i have  5 GnuGo versions
> 
> 3.0= 2.48 mb
> 3.2 =3.92 mb
> 3.3.16=3.12 mb
> 3.3.19= 1.96 mb
> 3.3.20= 757 Kb

> but i have trouble to understand the huge size difference.
> Are any data missing in the 3 unstable versions ?

No, ofcause not!
The executable was stripped and packed (see http://upx.sourceforge.net/)

These are the sizes:

-g -O2:         6230492
stripped:       2836480
stripped + upx:  777728

Teun