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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon electron-userland

Compression set to maximum makes AppImages run very slowly

Open ashleysimpson opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

  • Electron-Builder Version: 22.13.0
  • Node Version: 14.17.0
  • Electron Version: 13.2.3
  • Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current
  • Target: AppImage

Question/Bug Report

We started using the compression flag recently and setting it to maximum. This did decrease the package size for us, which was great. One issue is that it makes the AppImage run really slow. Not sure if this is expected or not but we were really confused for a while and had to revert this change. Just wondering if this should be something mentioned in the documentation or maybe it is an issue that should be looked into (I understand that AppImages are self-contained and therefore any form of compression might affect the speed). Thanks! Really appreciate all the work that is put into this package.

ashleysimpson avatar Oct 07 '21 20:10 ashleysimpson