Re: Size of bound files
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Nov 30, 2011
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Hi
Could I have this as a feature request for future development, of low urgency.
Size of bound files
I've just bound the following tiny program to quickly detect ip addresses
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and its come out at 3,476,272 Mb, ie 3.5 megs for a 22 line program.
I know a lot of stuff gets added on, and I could use UPX or gzexe, but even so! There must be a lot of 'useless' stuff that could be stripped out.
As I said, this is a low priority task, but if you could get round to it, it might make a few more fans ('produces tight compact executables')
Snarky answer: Use the translator. (I get a 5MB bound file, and a 500KB translated file.)
Seriously, though, I'm not sure what we would do. The "backend runner" is basically the interpreter back end with a simpler front end. For some reason, it's a bit bigger than the interpreter.
We could provide the backend linked as a shared library. The interpreter and backend runner would then be able to share the same backend at that point. Obviously, this makes it more difficult to share a bound executable, but it would be a lot smaller.
Matt
