| ??? 03/21/05 18:03 Read: times |
#90165 - Apples vs Apple Trees? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Raghunathan said:
This is an application that we did for a full fledged pump test rig 2 years back, in VB6.0,with plenty of on line plotting, database facilities for test data and the like. The compiled EXE was just 5.2Mb.
The same machine; the same functionality; except that this time we did it in LabVIEW ( full graphical coding environment) and the compiled EXE is 48Mb. Possibly, the VB exe size is just the apple, whereas LabVIEW may be giving you a complete tree? In other words, the VB exe may rely upon a further 43MB of DLLs, etc, whereas LabVIEW may be giving you everything in one standalone package? Borland C++ Builder has the option to build a complete, standalone exe, or to require all the extra DLLs etc. The advantage of the complete, standalone exe is that you don't need to write complex installers etc - but at the expense of "bloat." |
