Since people have been looking at paring down the size of Julia recently, I went back and made sure my "lite" branch ( https://github.com/ScottPJones/julia/tree/spj/lite) of Julia was sync'ed with master, as that as had quite a lot of changes recently.
Here is some information comparing the "lite" branch to a normal Julia build: After doing make install, for my lite branch (with Make.user turning off additionally DOCS, HELP, and REPL) (which is nice for making a version for with low memory overhead for running scripts) I get the following: When run, I get Sys.maxrss() of 84,856,832, with DOCS, HELP, and REPL, it’s 108,204,032, and normal build of master its 161,628,160, however, the number returned tends to fluctuate a lot. v0.4.5 returns much less, only 95,952,896 when called from a script. sys.dylib is 37,992,484 for normal build, and 17,089,520 for the lite build, so it takes about 45% the space. The following shows the amount of space taken for the installation (it’s less than half the size of a normal v0.5 install). /j/julia/julia-lite 12:26 $ du -k -d 1 56 ./bin 4 ./etc 280 ./include 100284 ./lib 0 ./libexec 19104 ./share 119728 . I get the following for a normal build: /j/julia/julia-0613 12:26 $ du -k -d 1 56 ./bin 4 ./etc 280 ./include 229484 ./lib 0 ./libexec 19056 ./share 248880 .
