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Compression better in IA17 vs IA11 ?
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 4:41 am
by QooScho
Hello,
I just have installed IA17 and dir a new build.
In the launch information of IA17 you write:
o 50% Faster Compression: InstallAware's brand-new compression technology is all about having your cake and eating it too. How would you like to enjoy up to 50% faster builds, and setup binaries smaller than ever before? Just recompile in InstallAware 17!
If I compare the size of the IA11 setup.exe and the IA17 setup.exe it is same size (also with setting "best compression"
Do I something wrong?
best regards
Hans
Re: Compression better in IA17 vs IA11 ?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:28 am
by QooScho
Hello
may I ask again?
Is there no difference in compression size between old IA11 and IA17?
kind regards
Hans
Re: Compression better in IA17 vs IA11 ?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 4:06 am
by FrancescoT
Dear Hans,
if you have a look at the IA 17 documentation within the "what's new" section, you will find;
The compression settings for your projects (as accessible from the Build Settings dialog) have been updated for the new compression library:
The new best setting outperforms the previous best setting.
The new second-best setting is equivalent to the previous best setting, and compresses up to 50% faster; in addition to being able to leverage 3 processor cores instead of only 2 when building.
The two remaining compressed slider settings may use up to all available processor cores, for even faster builds (albeit providing reduced compression gains).
In addition with Compressed Web Exe builds, IA 17 now includes the possibility to enable the use of Pre-Compiled Application Runtimes.
Regards
Re: Compression better in IA17 vs IA11 ?
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 4:26 am
by QooScho
Dear Francesco
thank you,
I know the documentation, but there is also this;
...How would you like to enjoy up to 50% faster builds, and setup binaries smaller than ever before? Just recompile in InstallAware 17!
But with same best setting of compression I cannot see a difference of size or smaller binaries??
best regards
Hans
Re: Compression better in IA17 vs IA11 ?
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:13 am
by FrancescoT
Dear Hans,
the compression algoritms included with IA 17 now use a more accurate and faster compression engine.
I have personally executed a comparative test over the compression speed with previous IA versions and it is faster.
However, the engine compression speed is strictly dependent on many factors related with hardware, system resources and OS used.
Regards