Archive: compress question


compress question
I found that NSIS has a strange feature.
If the files are compressed by upx already, we can get smaller size with nsis.
But we would get larger size with the makecab of ms .
for example.
a.exe file size1,
compressed by upx to size2,
nsis size1 to size3
nsis size2 to size4
size4 would < size3
makecab size1 to size5
makecab size2 to size6
size5 would <size6


Lesson: combine UPX with NSIS as long as NSIS is still based on ZLib (reliable source: bzip2 coming in v1.90/2.0 ;) )