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    <title>topic 4.61 CompressionType=fast not working as well? in ThinApp</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ThinApp/4-61-CompressionType-fast-not-working-as-well/m-p/2561596#M6313</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I noticed in 4.6.1, the packages seems to be bigger. Today I rebuilt my Office 2003 package, and was surprised at the size differences:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Previous Version: CompressionType=Fast&lt;BR /&gt; 1/19/2010&amp;nbsp; 13:51&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 215,175,063&amp;nbsp; ___A__________&amp;nbsp; Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.dat&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4.6.1 CompressionType=Fast&lt;BR /&gt; 4/21/2011&amp;nbsp; 16:09&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 399,880,795&amp;nbsp; ___A__________&amp;nbsp; Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.dat&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4.6.1 CompressionType=None&lt;BR /&gt; 4/21/2011&amp;nbsp; 16:34&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 462,288,227&amp;nbsp; ___A__________&amp;nbsp; Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.dat&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It seems to do something, but far less than what I was getting in previous versions..&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If I use 7-zip to compress the capture folder using standard setting, it is about 152,037,029.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2011-04-21T23:48:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>4.61 CompressionType=fast not working as well?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ThinApp/4-61-CompressionType-fast-not-working-as-well/m-p/2561596#M6313</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I noticed in 4.6.1, the packages seems to be bigger. Today I rebuilt my Office 2003 package, and was surprised at the size differences:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Previous Version: CompressionType=Fast&lt;BR /&gt; 1/19/2010&amp;nbsp; 13:51&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 215,175,063&amp;nbsp; ___A__________&amp;nbsp; Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.dat&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4.6.1 CompressionType=Fast&lt;BR /&gt; 4/21/2011&amp;nbsp; 16:09&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 399,880,795&amp;nbsp; ___A__________&amp;nbsp; Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.dat&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4.6.1 CompressionType=None&lt;BR /&gt; 4/21/2011&amp;nbsp; 16:34&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 462,288,227&amp;nbsp; ___A__________&amp;nbsp; Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.dat&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It seems to do something, but far less than what I was getting in previous versions..&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If I use 7-zip to compress the capture folder using standard setting, it is about 152,037,029.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:48:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-04-21T23:48:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 4.61 CompressionType=fast not working as well?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ThinApp/4-61-CompressionType-fast-not-working-as-well/m-p/2561597#M6314</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Per the "VMware ThinApp 4.5 - What's New" article (&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2010/03/vmware-thinapp-45-whats-new.html"&gt;http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2010/03/vmware-thinapp-45-whats-new.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;)......&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Back in ThinApp 4.5 VMware released an "OptimizeFor=Disk" parameter.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #800000;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;New package.ini parameter: OptimizeFor&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;ThinApp 4.5 adds a new optional package.ini parameter called "&lt;STRONG&gt;OptimizedFor&lt;/STRONG&gt;" which can be set to either "&lt;STRONG&gt;Memory&lt;/STRONG&gt;" (default) or "&lt;STRONG&gt;Disk&lt;/STRONG&gt;". &lt;EM style="text-decoration: underline; "&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;ThinApp's new performance and memory sharing features may result in larger package files&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;.&amp;nbsp; In the worst case scenario packages can be twice as large as&amp;nbsp; before but in most cases the size difference, if any, is will be less&amp;nbsp; significant. If disk size is more important than memory utilization and&amp;nbsp; startup performance, you can set "OptimizeFor=Disk" in package.ini under&amp;nbsp; [BuildOptions]. The result of such a change will cause package sizes to&amp;nbsp; be similar as 4.0.4 and lower. In ThinApp 4.5, virtual executable files&amp;nbsp; such as EXEs and DLLs are not compressed inside of packages on disk&amp;nbsp; even when CompressionType=fast is enabled unless OptimizeFor=Disk is&amp;nbsp; also set.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is primarily because VMware also included startup and bandwidth optimizations in the form of memory remapping to allow for faster starts and more efficient streaming into memory of the package contents.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #800000;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Startup time improvements&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;For many users,&amp;nbsp; application startup time is one of the most important criteria for user&amp;nbsp; acceptance. In ThinApp 4.5, many applications will start significantly&amp;nbsp; faster. For example, Power Point 2007 loads approximately twice as fast&amp;nbsp; compared with previous versions of ThinApp when launched from a local&amp;nbsp; hard drive with a cold disk cache.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote" style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: center"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #800000;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333;"&gt;T&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;EM style="color: #333333; "&gt;ime in seconds to startup Power Point 2007, 2nd+ execution, cold disk cache&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef01310fac9b17970c-pi"&gt;&lt;IMG alt="image" border="0" height="88" src="http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef01310fac9b21970c-pi" style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="image" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #800000;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Bandwidth consumption improvements&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;Compared&amp;nbsp; with ThinApp 4.0.4, ThinApp 4.5 typically uses less bandwidth to stream&amp;nbsp; an application from a network share during initial application startup.&amp;nbsp; For Office 2007 applications, the amount of bandwidth consumed to&amp;nbsp; stream an application from a network share has been reduced by&amp;nbsp; approximately 50% (half the bandwidth required from 4.0.4). This&amp;nbsp; improvement comes from a new build optimization process that performs&amp;nbsp; static analysis on executable data and arranges packages such that less&amp;nbsp; executable code needs to be present on client systems in order to begin&amp;nbsp; execution.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote" style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;P style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #800000;"&gt;&lt;EM style="color: #333333; "&gt;Example bandwidth consumption (in MB) when streaming Word 2007&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef01310fac9b3c970c-pi"&gt;&lt;IMG alt="image" border="0" height="81" src="http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef01310fac9b4b970c-pi" style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="image" width="451" /&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;All of this and much more can be read in the below ThinApp Blog article.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2010/03/vmware-thinapp-45-whats-new.html"&gt;VMware ThinApp 4.5 – What’s new?&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;-Dean F.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;-&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://pub.vmware.com/thinapp4/help/"&gt;http://pub.vmware.com/thinapp4/help/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:29:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ThinApp/4-61-CompressionType-fast-not-working-as-well/m-p/2561597#M6314</guid>
      <dc:creator>Squidly_Man</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-04-22T03:29:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 4.61 CompressionType=fast not working as well?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ThinApp/4-61-CompressionType-fast-not-working-as-well/m-p/2561598#M6315</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ah. That did it, thanks!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:58:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ThinApp/4-61-CompressionType-fast-not-working-as-well/m-p/2561598#M6315</guid>
      <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-04-22T18:58:51Z</dc:date>
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