Re: Stripping nops from an executable

Sorav,

Be very careful about the task you have in mind as if you succeed, you
will most probably make your application slower as the nops are
generally used to align sections of code. The effects of code alignment
vary from one processor to another but misalign code when it was
aligned using nops and similar filler instruction and you will see a
drop in speed for what will only be a trivial size reduction.

Regards,

hutch at movsd dot com

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