Looks like it's the opposite. At the moment Utah's is half the size. I'll install the current Utah's and compare generated executables with 8.0 release.
Utah: [image: Utah.png] Northwestern: [image: North.png] On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 11:42:46 AM UTC+2 Dexter Lagan wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > It is indeed the one from Utah. I’ll give the other one a try and report > back. Thanks for looking into this! > > Dex > > > > On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 8:32:00 PM UTC+2 Matthew Flatt wrote: > >> Hi Dex, >> >> Are you using a snapshot build from the Utah site --- as opposed to a >> snapshot for Northwestern or some other build? >> >> I see that the Utah site's compiled code is twice as big as the >> Northwestern site's compiled code. It looks like the build process for >> Racket at Utah (via Visual Studio) misconfigures the "should compiled >> code be compressed?" flag, while the build process used at Northwestern >> (via MinGW) configures that setting correctly. The distribution builds >> are made in the same way as the Northwestern snapshots. >> >> I'll fix the compilation path that the Utah snapshot uses, but it would >> be good to know whether that could be the problem. >> >> Thanks, >> Matthew >> >> At Sun, 4 Apr 2021 02:19:28 -0700 (PDT), Dexter Lagan wrote: >> > I updated to current again, and executable file size has nearly doubled >> > again (120MB vs 70MB). I'd be curious to know if startup time wouldn't >> be >> > affected by file IO at this point. I'm using 7.9 BC 32 bits in >> production >> > atm, since it produces the smallest executables (12 MB!). >> > >> > Dex >> > >> > On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 8:07:00 PM UTC+1 Dexter Lagan wrote: >> > >> > > Hello there, >> > > >> > > Two things: >> > > >> > > - I noticed a doubling of executable file sizes (from 30MB to 70MB >> for >> > > racket/gui with embedded libs, Windows) between Racket 7.9 (non-CS) >> and >> > > Racket 8.0 (CS). Because of this, startup times from network drives >> also >> > > doubled (from 5 to 10s for gui programs when using CS). I had to >> revert to >> > > 7.9 non-CS for now; >> > > >> > > - Because of this, I have been trying to reduce file sizes to a >> minimum. I >> > > tried replacing racket/gui by a minimal list of requires to no avail. >> I >> > > tried using the raco demod function to demodularize, but it seems to >> be >> > > broken on recent version of Racket (anything beyond hello world will >> quit >> > > prematurely, racket/gui programs won't run at all). I tried GitHub - >> > > bluerider/flattener: Source Code Level Flattener for PLT Racket >> > > <https://github.com/bluerider/flattener> without success (seems >> broken as >> > > well). I also tried compressing executables with UPX, but it also >> breaks >> > > them. >> > > >> > > Does anybody know of a way to reduce final Racket executable file >> sizes >> > > / flatten / demodularize while keeping gui functionality ? >> > > >> > > Dex >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Racket Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email >> > to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/a2a14107-01fb-4f36-b6e1-c02498f35 >> >> > 7adn%40googlegroups.com. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/5e33921f-c751-40b5-89bc-fadc01bda506n%40googlegroups.com.
