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About LinkBacksMaybe this is OLD and I'm just a n00b but did you guys know that you can pack certain 'often used' ELFs to be much smaller?
The Infinity Manager is normally ~190kB. After ps2-packer-lite -> ~70kB -> works normally.
HDL_srv.elf can be packed and it still works.
DMS HDD Format Tool can be packed and it still works.
I don't remember the exact sizes of the others than MI but they do shrink. That should be good news for those who have their mc full.
Some programs are packed to the max and the attempt to pack them more results in a bigger file than the original
Such programs: ExecFTPs 0.69, LaunchELF 3.41.
I haven't actually tried to run these 'bloated' apps because that would mean that I have way too much spare time...
Has anyone else tried to pack their ELFs? Post the results here.
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#1 Packing Infinity Manager and such apps
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05-25-2005,03:59 AM
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05-28-2005,06:16 AMI guess this was a trivial discovery after all? :/
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05-28-2005,08:14 AMNo, that's a good idea. I never tried it because I assumed all the app programers packed the elf's anyway :P The Infinity Manager went from 194396 to 63872 bytes, I tried HDLD_SVR 0.8.1 and it wouldn't finish loading once it was packed.
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05-28-2005,01:44 PMThat's what I thought too! I guess that all of the authors just don't bother to pack their apps...
Originally Posted by effbee
Strange... I packed my HDL_SRV.ELF from 160kB to 65.3kB and it works like a charm...
What's weird about packing Infinity Manager is that when you pack the version that came with the F/W v1.21 it shrinks to 64kB but when you use the one which came with the v1.31 it only goes down to about 76Kb. And they are supposed to be exactly the same damn program(v1.01b)...!
DMS HDD Tool goes down from 134KB to 119kB which isn't that much.
All these tests were made using ps2-packer-lite 0.45 with its default packer.
EDIT : The new Dev2Installer goes down from 302988 bytes to 148605
Last edited by cyrbanen; 05-29-2005 at 05:07 PM.
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