Game Develop IDE Warning - Not Minified

[Mats]

I have a web platform project file that ends up being ~40mb when exported. I get a warning at the end of the export that says:

The exported script could not be minified: It seems that the script is too heavy and needs too much memory to be minified.

Try using sub-event and reduce number of events.

My computer has 4GB of RAM and this is a 40mb file. How can there be not enough memory to minify this?!!! Is there any way to get this project minified anyway?

Also, I’m using a very minimal number of events (around a dozen) with everything else in sub events.

Edit: Shrank the file so it ends up at 29mb, but it still gives the same warning about minifying.

[4ian]

Minification is done using Google Closure Compiler which is quite memory eager (it does intensive computations on the generated code) and also really slow (and written in Java). I consider replacing it by another tool (UglifyJS) in next version which is a bit less performant concerning compression, but lightning fast and using far less memory.

[Mats]

@4ian

Minification is done using Google Closure Compiler which is quite memory eager (it does intensive computations on the generated code) and also really slow (and written in Java). I consider replacing it by another tool (UglifyJS) in next version which is a bit less performant concerning compression, but lightning fast and using far less memory.

This sounds awesome!

However, I also watched it in task manager and it seems to give up while using only ~1080mb of code. With everything I had running, this was only ~50% of my available memory. I guess there is no way to prevent it stopping when memory usage gets this high if I still have memory available?