Stripping nops from an executable

From: Sorav Bansal <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:09:20 +0000 (UTC)

I have a statically linked executable which has many useless nop's (inserted due to optimization passes).

I wish to remove all the nops from the executable with minimum effort (to make it faster). What would be the steps involved in doing this? Could somebody please help. Are there any existing tools that could be of help?

thanks in advance

regards,

Sorav

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