Is it possible to cut down the size of Flex 4 deployments?
- by Robusto
My bin-release for a very simple Web project using Flex 4 is weighing in at 1.5MB. 40% of that is taken up by one single file which is over 600K all by itself.
Here are the files that take up most of the volume:
framework_4.0.0.14159.swz 608KB
spark_4.0.0.14159.swz 311KB
textLayout_1.0.0.595.swz 153KB
There are others as well, but this is over a megabyte right there. All this was fine when I was writing components for a large Flex application, but now I need to do widgets on an HTML page using a CMS.
Are all these files really necessary to deploy? Are there things I can do to cut down the weight?