I would like to use Parrot on a "small platform" (embedded microprocessor system). The system would need a minimal parrot that should only run precompiled bytecode, nothing else, and it does not even need the PGE. But it should be very small (say <250K). I compiled parrot --without almost everything (no debug, no gmp, no gdbm) but the library is still several MB. I've read "Parrot for small platforms" in pdd01_overview, it says "For small platforms, any parser, compiler, and optimizer modules are replaced with a small bytecode loader module which reads in Parrot bytecode and passes it to the interpreter for execution." I guess that's what I need; but I have no idea how to compile parrot this way. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
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