make dsl-embedded 1700kB smaller

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: make dsl-embedded 1700kB smaller
started by: stw

Posted by stw on April 14 2005,14:54

I think it would be great to use < 7zip > and < UPX > to make the embedded version (with qemu) smaller.

Code Sample

du -s
113220

gunzip minirt24.gz
7za a -tgzip -mx=9 minirt24.gz minirt24
rm minirt24

chmod +x qemu/qemu
upx -9 qemu/qemu qemu/qemu.exe qemu/sdl.dll

du -s
111520

As you can see, it uses 1700kB less, which is not much, but it may also speed up loading from slow media such as an usb stick, because the qemu binaries are smaller.

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Cheers,
Stephan

Posted by MakodFilu on Jan. 20 2007,16:21

I was toying a little with 7z a -mx=9 -tgzip and then gzip -9.

Both provide a minirt.gz smaller than the original. I was expecting that from 7z, but not for busybox gzip, since I thought it was already compressed at maximum setting.

Is there any reason for not doing so? Speed or memory constraints in old computers?

Posted by roberts on Jan. 20 2007,16:53

It has been considered.
Yes, the impact on older slower computers prevents from doing so.