Re: Size of distributive, size installed program and what is cufft64_100.dll
Posted: September 21st, 2019, 7:25 pm
cufft64_100.dll is a package for doing fast fourier transforms using CUDA -- these are used by the Texture transformation. It is an adaptation of the FFTW package which makes massive trade-offs in size to get the fastest possible performance. The speed boost in Texture with an NVIDIA card is huge.
I has been on my to-do list for a while to reduce the size of the help file. I deliberately added lots of images and incorporated material previously in white papers to make it more useful as a reference, but some of the images are larger than necessary as you point out. I would have done this sooner, but the help authoring tool only fairly recently made it easier to locate the oversize images.
I could split the installer into parts (main program / help file / NVIDIA support file/ extras), so you could avoid downloading components that stay the same, but then it becomes easy to create version skew among the components as they are updated individually. Earlier in the beta process I provided a much smaller download of just the executable file which is mostly what changes from version to version, but as the beta audience grew larger I became concerned about possible issues using a new executable with old support files.
I will take a closer look at the downloadable size and see what I can do.
I has been on my to-do list for a while to reduce the size of the help file. I deliberately added lots of images and incorporated material previously in white papers to make it more useful as a reference, but some of the images are larger than necessary as you point out. I would have done this sooner, but the help authoring tool only fairly recently made it easier to locate the oversize images.
I could split the installer into parts (main program / help file / NVIDIA support file/ extras), so you could avoid downloading components that stay the same, but then it becomes easy to create version skew among the components as they are updated individually. Earlier in the beta process I provided a much smaller download of just the executable file which is mostly what changes from version to version, but as the beta audience grew larger I became concerned about possible issues using a new executable with old support files.
I will take a closer look at the downloadable size and see what I can do.