On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 01:00:19PM +0200, Jan-Tarek Butt wrote: > My Idea ist to create calldefs to minify all scriptes there are > interpreted by run time. > > 1. Reducing memory size on firmware images. > this is absolutely negligible. as others already pointed out, scripts compress quite well. also, they are actually only a rather small fraction of the image's total size.
> 2. Strip out all comments (which makes us able to do better code > commenting) > you mean, we can make the scripts *yet bigger* because it won't negatively affect the image's size. except that point 1, so this isn't actually a limiting factor. writing said comments and keeping them up-to-date is the problem. > 3. and so on. > i think mostly "whatever". ;) i'll also pre-emptively point out that minification has a rather insignificant impact on run time - the only thing that is slowed down is the tokenization/parsing, and that is again rather insiginificant compared to everything else executing a script involves. but hey, make some actual measurements - maybe you'll surprise me. _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
