What does HackerNews think of Crinkler?

Crinkler is an executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for compressing small 32-bit Windows demoscene executables. As of 2020, it is the most widely used tool for compressing 1k/4k/8k intros.

Language: C++

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Crinkler - https://github.com/runestubbe/Crinkler
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Crinkler [1] is a popular compressor-linker for 1--8 KB demos and its decompressor (partially overlapping with 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/
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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/