UPX

I Use This!

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Project Summary

UPX (the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks because of in-place decompression.
UPX aims to be Commercial Quality Freeware.

In a Nutshell, UPX...

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has had 2,231 commits made by 11 contributors
representing 129,039 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a very low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 33 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2000
ending with its most recent commit over 14 years ago

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