On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 05:15:30PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> After some futher analysis I found that perl6.pbc and the perl6 binary
> both are about 11MB in size - and 1.3MB when compressed with gzip.
>
> So if anybody actually wants to do something about the size, teach
> parrot's pbc_to_exe co
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:27:47AM -0400, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-22-04 at 09:09 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > We can
> > actually make the "perl6" executable file itself as small as
> > 50K, but the first thing it then does is load a several-megabyte
> > Parrot bytecode library.
After some futher analysis I found that perl6.pbc and the perl6 binary
both are about 11MB in size - and 1.3MB when compressed with gzip.
So if anybody actually wants to do something about the size, teach
parrot's pbc_to_exe compress the pbc, and uncompress into memory upon
loading.
In the long r
On Fri, 2011-22-04 at 09:09 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> We can
> actually make the "perl6" executable file itself as small as
> 50K, but the first thing it then does is load a several-megabyte
> Parrot bytecode library.
>
> But overall answer to your question -- yes, we expect that
> impro
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:33:45AM +0100, gvim wrote:
> The Perl 6 binary within the January release of Rakudo Star
> is 10Mb on my Snow Leopard system. Do I take it that the
> Perl 6 binary is [...] much larger than the current
> Perl 5.12 (1.6Mb) or is it simply that the Perl 6 binary
> is li
On 04/22/2011 01:33 AM, gvim wrote:
> Do I take it that the Perl 6 binary is, by design, much larger than the
> current Perl 5.12 (1.6Mb)
No, we didn't design either the language or the compiler with the goal
of having a large executable.
And I seem to recall we already had a similar discussion
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:33 PM, gvim wrote:
> This is not a criticism of anything. I am not a core developer but need to
> be aware of what to expect when Perl 6 settles down into a production-ready
> state. The Perl 6 binary within the January release of Rakudo Star is 10Mb
> on my Snow Leopard
