Re: Opinions on the best EXE compressor

From: Lluis Olle (llob.correobasurano_at_menta.net)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:20:33 +0200

Hi all

Just my two cents ...

1. In general, I always put some kind of "single instance only" in my
applications, so to stop the user from launching several instances of the
same exe ... so I'm not worried if several instances took more memory, just
because there won't be more than one instance.

2. In my organization, the "realtime" Anti-Virus software is always on, and
"watching" ... so your mean that the Anti-Virus software doesn't brings ALL
exe code into memory to scan it's contents before real execution begins ?

3. All my programs reside in a network location ... If the program is
compressed, it would live in the LOCAL paging, so no network activity
produced by the exe program after launch ... Otherwise, there would be no
local paging for the exe, because the OS would go thru the network,
dinamically loading pages from the network.

4. A compressed program woul load faster from network.

5. Network's are generally overloaded ... my computer, with 512 Mb, Pentium
IV 2.8 MHz, 80 Gb Ultra-IDE ... is not.

It's no so simply at all to say "no" to exe compression.

Regards

"Tim Sullivan" <tim@NO.SPAM.uil.FOR.ME.net> escribió en el mensaje
news:40cef3e5@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > I would really appreciate if you could share your expierens with an EXE
> > compressor. I dont' really know which are availible, from searching on
> > Google I came across, ASPack, PECompact.
>
> Don't use EXE compressors. For a good list of reasons why, go here:
>
> http://www.jrsoftware.org/striprlc.php#execomp
>
> --
> Tim Sullivan
> Unlimited Intelligence Limited
> http://www.uil.net
>
>
>

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