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I recently posted a LV 8.0 VI on another board, it was just a bundle by name example. Problem was they needed it in 7.1, so I did a save to previous version and reposted the VI. When reading over the thread I noticed the 8.0 VI was about 13 k and the 7.1 was about 23k. Anybody no why, just curious?

From page 83 of the upgrade notes: http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780a.pdf

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File Size Improvements

Saving VIs from earlier versions of LabVIEW in LabVIEW 8.0

significantly decreases their file size. The file size of VIs you save in

LabVIEW 8.0 is about 55% less than the file size of the same VIs in

LabVIEW 7.1. The file size of LLBs in LabVIEW 8.0 is about 20% less

than the file size of the same LLBs in LabVIEW 7.1.

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Pretty cool stuff :D

Joe (orko)

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From page 83 of the upgrade notes: http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780a.pdf

*****************************

File Size Improvements

Saving VIs from earlier versions of LabVIEW in LabVIEW 8.0

significantly decreases their file size. The file size of VIs you save in

LabVIEW 8.0 is about 55% less than the file size of the same VIs in

LabVIEW 7.1. The file size of LLBs in LabVIEW 8.0 is about 20% less

than the file size of the same LLBs in LabVIEW 7.1.

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Pretty cool stuff :D

Joe (orko)

zlib compression has been around for years. It's about time.

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But LLBs already used a moderate compression algorithme. Not as good as zlib but still around 15 - 30%.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Yes, VIs saved in LLBs were compressed (at least somewhat) with a home-brew compression algorithm. Stand-alone VIs were not.

The new format essentially only saves the differences from the default state/instance of each object. This has given us the savings you see mentioned in the release notes.

J

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Point well taken, perhaps there could be an effect

Maybe. I have compared VIServer launching times for VIs in llbs and as independent files, in LV7.1.1. Independent files are launched about 3% faster, not a great deal compared with the rest of time-consuming actions. I still haven't checked it in LV8, though.

Saludos,

Aitor

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