Release build has doubled in size

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Release build has doubled in size

Gitoffthelawn opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Thank you for continuing this useful plugin.

I noticed that the 32-bit release build of the DLL is twice the size of that offered on https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/Hex Editor/Hex Editor Plugin v0.9.5/

Why is this? Is this an issue?

Also, the version number within the build has not been updated at all, resulting in some confusion. Is it okay to update it within the DLL to reflect the version number in this repo?

chcg · Answer 1 · Sun Apr 19 2020 06:15:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Probably the usage of MS Visual Studio to build the plugin with MS CRT which is quite huge, but that is no real problem.

See b3a2101 for the preparation of a 0.9.6 release.

Gitoffthelawn · Answer 2 · Sun Apr 19 2020 09:22:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@chcg
Thanks. I do wonder, however, if that is all that is causing it. It's almost exactly twice the size. Maybe just a weird coincidence, but maybe not?

Note that with multiple plugins added to Notepad++, initial load time increases as well as memory use. Overall, I think it's best to optimize plugin size and efficiency as much as possible.

Thanks!