Crinkler VS roadroller

I also tried crinkler, got it to link but the executable does apparently nothing.

Crinkler - https://github.com/runestubbe/Crinkler

Crinkler [1] is a popular compressor-linker for 1--8 KB demos and its decompressor (partially embedded in a PE header) is probably around 1--200 bytes. Later efforts like oneKpaq [2] also have a comparable decompressor size.

If you don't mind a shameless plug and a slightly larger decompressor (about 500 bytes in JS) for better compression, my Roadroller [3] might fit the bill as well.

[1] https://github.com/runestubbe/Crinkler

[2] https://github.com/temisu/oneKpaq

[3] https://lifthrasiir.github.io/roadroller/

Crinkler, the compressing linker, is really interesting. This link inadvertently shows the file_id.diz for Crinkler rather than anything relevant to the rest of Elevated; but honestly I always found the Crinkler stuff to be fascinating.

The project lives on today: https://github.com/runestubbe/Crinkler and http://crinkler.net/

A somewhat similar project is Crinkler, a compressing linker.

Crinkler is designed to help make extremely small EXE files (such as around 4K in size), and replaces the Link step in building a program. It uses otherwise unused space in the EXE header, and uses a different method than the typical way to import DLL functions.

Crinkler [1] is a popular compressor-linker for 1--8 KB demos and its decompressor (partially embedded in a PE header) is probably around 1--200 bytes. Later efforts like oneKpaq [2] also have a comparable decompressor size.

If you don't mind a shameless plug and a slightly larger decompressor (about 500 bytes in JS) for better compression, my Roadroller [3] might fit the bill as well.

[1] https://github.com/runestubbe/Crinkler

[2] https://github.com/temisu/oneKpaq

[3] https://lifthrasiir.github.io/roadroller/

Roadroller [1] is probably a borderline general purpose compression algorithm, and with some automatic parameter tuning it results in 12,170 bytes estimated [2], at the expense of a lot of memory. "Estimated" because the algorithm was originally meant to be recompresssed in a ZIP file, so it doesn't bother to generate the smallest JS file in terms of uncompressed size (yet).

[1] https://lifthrasiir.github.io/roadroller/ (the exact parameters: golf.horse dataset; input mode text; action write to document; # contexts 12 with 12,15,49,50,70,79,96,97,131,154,292,353; pollute the global scope; max memory usage 150 MB; precision 16; learning rate 1333; model max count 11; model base divisor 14; dynamic model flags -1; # abbreviations 64)

And compressed final code even more with Roadroller (reduced 1.3 KB in the zip). And used ECT to recompress the zip (reduced 300 KB).

I'm honored that Q1K3, in addition to many other entries to js13kGames 2021, is compresed with Roadroller [1], which is the reason that its source code is basically a random-looking string plus some bit of JS code.

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/roadroller/