Re: [Edbrowse-dev] showscripts()

[Geoff McLane <ubuntu@geoffair.info>]

 > if it adds 100K ... removes 100K ... no gain.

Understood...

Well for windows zlib would still be a good choice... just add 
find_package( ZLIB ), like the present find_package( Tidy ), etc, in 
CMakeLists.txt, since at lease most Windows developers are very, VERY 
likely to have ZLIB installed, as it is needed for a **lot** of projects...

And already have to setup the PATH to include other DLL's, like CURL... 
to run eb...

But also understand this is not high priority... and actually 
compression would certainly add a lot of other wrinkles, that may not be 
worth the effort... and in Windows, a large EXE footprint, and 
allocating lots of memory is the norm, and Windows handles it well...

Just for information, the eb Windows Release EXE is 1.9 MB, the Debug is 
3 MB, plus 3.3 MB pdb, and 1.1 MB ilk files... and on loading the 
nasa.gov site, using the MSVC debugger, shows some 67 MB of process 
memory used, and takes about 3.5 minutes to load, using about 25% of the 
CPU power, like 1 core, before falling to 0, waiting for the next 
input... relatively quite a light-weight app compared to some I play 
with...

So do not see any concern about eb memory usage... in Windows at 
least... so shaving 50-100 K likewise does not seem worth the effort...

Regards, Geoff.