Idea: Ship `upx`-compressed executables?

zakird / wkhtmltopdf_binary_gem

Ruby gem containing easily installable access to wkhtmltopdf application

https://rubygems.org/gems/wkhtmltopdf-binary

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Idea: Ship `upx`-compressed executables? #43

Open k3rni opened 6 years ago

k3rni commented 6 years ago

Using upx on shipped wkhtmltopdf binaries drastically reduces their size. Each of the binaries (linux x86, linux x86_64, darwin x86) reduces to about 15MB. And with modern CPUs the decompression time doesn't matter - but there is less I/O involved.

joevandyk commented 6 years ago

@k3rni could you do this for each of the platforms and make a pull request?

k3rni commented 6 years ago

@joevandyk see #47