On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:11:58PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:48:06PM -0500, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > > On 12/3/2012 2:32 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: > > >As part of implementing the ECMAScript Internationalization API [1, 2] in > > >SpiderMonkey, and as an aid in internationalizing other functionality in > > >Mozilla products [3], I need to integrate the ICU library (International > > >Components for Unicode [4]) into the source tree and the build. > > This has been brought up many times over the years, and each time > > previously we decided not to import ICU. At first, the license was > > incompatible; that has since been fixed. Now the question is mainly > > about whether the features ICU provides are worth the really cost in > > terms of binary size. > > > > How much size does ICU cost, if we took the entire library? How much > > of that is data (which can be shared in 32/64 mac universal builds) > > and how much is code which cannot be shared? > > ICU doesn't come with data files. Data is enclosed in libraries, and > such data is not shared between the 32-bits and 64-bits parts of > universal binaries.
FWIW, the libicudata.so file on my debian install has about 18MB of .rodata. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
