>Another thing you can do to reduce the size of your EXE is not to include debugging information. However, if you do this, you can't use lineno() in your error handler any more. The workaround, discussed in previous threads, is to make a copy of your files and clear the method code in forms and classes (the compiled code, in another memo field, remains), but I didn't try this yet.
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>If you can make your application "modular", you might keep some modules in separte APP-files, so as not to load the entire executable at once - but I don't know whether this is really worthwhile.
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>Hilmar.

But the question also for me remains, does the size of the exe have any effect on the performance? Or are there any other compelling reasons why the exe should be small?
I always prefer to include all stuff into the exe. It's just easier to distribute. Some clients may say, "Oh, an 8 MB file, that's a lot!", but I never had the feeling that this hurts the performance.