Size of compiled exe

[SpriggsySpriggs]

You don't want to use upx for a program that isn't console only. If you do, it has to unpack the program first and then run. This slows it down immensely. With a console only program, it's just as fast and is tiny. With a program that uses the regular screen in QB64, slow as a turtle. Be careful what you wish for. Then again, I could be wrong. Something else I just compressed worked just fine. I don't know.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

I made a custom QB64 IDE build by adding a line that takes the compiled exe and uses the most aggressive compression flag. I was able to actually turn the 7 meg QB64 x64 exe to just over 2 megs.

[SMcNeill]

And I clicked the ADD DEBUG INFORMATION when compiling QB64.bas and ran out of drive space making the EXE...  ;D