Improve Windows build speed

eliasdoehne / stellaris-dashboard

A graph dashboard and event log for Stellaris.

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Improve Windows build speed #137

Closed MichaelMakesGames closed 6 months ago

MichaelMakesGames commented 6 months ago

The command powershell Compress-Archive stellarisdashboard-build/* ../stellarisdashboard-windows-latest.zip takes nearly 7m to complete. The equivalent step for Mac takes only 12s. We should investigate and improve this.

Potentially relevant stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73702377/powershell-command-compress-archive-incredibly-slow

chennin commented 6 months ago

Existing Windows archive size: 135MB, speed: 6:50 to 7:30

-CompressionLevel Fastest produced a 146MB file and still took 6m40s
[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory with Fastest produced a 145MB file and took 7s!
[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory with Optimal produced a 136MB file and took 11s