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File Size

A topic by Abstruse Paradox created 91 days ago Views: 72 Replies: 4
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The project is fascinating, but how is this, which can't possibly be more than a few megabytes of code, over half a gigabyte unzipped? Is this doing something insane behind the scenes?

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the question!

Yes the file size is bigger than I would like too. This seems to be a limitation with the way I convert from Python code to a .exe (Pyinstaller). So most of my games (the ones written in Python), even relatively simple ones, have around this minimum size. 


Definitely something I can look at though. Maybe I can remove some of the stuff that's getting bundled with it and see if it doesn't break anything.

Is there a particular reason you convert Python to a Windows executable? I notice the Java projects are considerably smaller, and I don't need Wine to run those.

Developer

Honestly just speed. I'm much more proficient in Python and just like working with it.

I meant, that can't you leave it as a raw Python file to execute as a script rather than converting it to an executable? Then it'd be cross-platform in addition to being smaller.