[SDL] embedding resources inside your program

Edward Cullen eac203 at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon May 12 15:58:34 PDT 2008


*shrug*

I know very little about Windows internals, I mean, who wants to? *grin*

Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> 
> 
>> Under Windows though, I think it does - I believe the OS loads the exe 
>> entirely into memory, so it's gonna kill your start-up times. Any 
>> Windows Guru got a definitive answer here?
> 
> Windows won't load data at the end of an .exe into memory when starting 
> the program. This is why those > 2 gigabyte self-extracting .rar files 
> can work on Win32.
> 
> --ryan.
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