BlockSize Parameter

The BlockSize parameter controls the size of compression blocks only when ThinApp compresses files for a build.

A larger block size can achieve higher compression. Larger block sizes might slow the performance because of the following reasons:

• The build process slows down with larger block sizes.
• The startup time and read operations for applications slow down with large block sizes.
• More memory is required at runtime when you use larger block sizes.

You can specify the BlockSize parameter in the Package.ini file and in the ##Attributes.ini file. You can

use different block sizes for different directories within a single project.

Increasing the Size of a Block

You can increase the 64KB default size of the BlockSize parameter to a supported block size of 128KB, 256KB, 512KB, or 1MB. You can add k after the number to indicate kilobytes or m to indicate megabytes.

[Compression]
BlockSize=128k