[ScintillaNET] Re: Next Release
- From: mike.griffin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: scintillanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
Not a bad suggestion but the changing the formats would be tough I think,
however, Garrett, you could change all of the attributes to one letter
codes and such to shrink it up quite a bit?
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:21:17 -0600, Garrett Serack <garrett_serack@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> The ScintillaNET.dll assembly is coming in at 106k, and the ScConfig.dll
>> assembly is 561K (Mainly 'cause of all the .xml files included as
>> resources).
>> Any thoughts?
>
> 5) Why not ditch XML for config files and use something that takes
> less space. I didn't look at the format but I believe a simple, easy
> to parse text format would do and save space. XML is a really verbose
> format. Alternatively (or additionally) those resources could be
> compressed and uncompressed in memory before parsing.
>
> Or, given that those are resources hidden from users and not meant to
> be read/modified, why not just a binary format (e.g. serialized CLR
> class) that would be super-efficient (both space and time) to use. As
> part of the build process there could be a step that converts XML
> source description into this efficient, binary format (so that we keep
> the benefits of being able to modify config files easily in XML).
>
> It's a bit strange that style description take as much space as all
> the scintilla code.
>
> Krzysztof Kowalczyk | http://blog.kowalczyk.info
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