[APBeta] Mac version compression

[Paul Rodman]

OK, this doesn't seem to work too well under all conditions, so I'm  
not going to continue this for 2.0b24 onwards.

Paul R.

On Feb 27, 2009, at 01:55 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm trying a new compression technique on the Mac OS X version. The  
> size of the application is reduced from 135MB down to 46MB (and it  
> also saves a couple of MB on the download size). I cannot see any  
> problems with this, but if you see any new problems or slowdowns,  
> let me know.
>
> (Windows users might be wondering why the Mac app size is/was so big  
> compared with the Windows app. The main reason for this is the fact  
> that the Mac version runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC  
> processors, and hence needs two completely separate code segments)