RFC: win32: nsis: compact installation after installation succeeds
Unlike traditional NTFS compression, compact.exe
,
introduced with Windows 10 works really fast and
provides considerable compression rates with its
default settings. For the record, it takes about
5 seconds to compress the whole installation with
AMD Ryzen 5800H running under VM.
Nowadays decompression can be considered faster than reading from disk. So, it is almost always a good idea to utilize compression when applicable.
The size reduction observed during testing is
substantial. The size reduction of
vlc-4.0.0-dev-win64-c6566cf2
is as follows:
Before (size on disk): 252 MB (264,425,472 bytes) After (size on disk): 148 MB (156,147,712 bytes)