Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >This might be possible if the byteorder, wordsize, defaultencoding > >etc. are the same in the file on disk and the host. > > Which will generally be the case, I expect. Tell a sysadmin that they > can reduce the memory footprint of mod_parrot by 50% by running a > utility (that we provide in the parrot kit) over the library and I > expect you'll see smoke from the keyboard as he/she whips off the > command at supersonic speeds... :)
It might be even possible to dump the jitted code. This would increase the startup. Then strip the bytecode to reduce the size of the file and TADA: Yet another new binary format. I'm really not sure if I'm serious here boe -- Juergen Boemmels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Physik Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-2817 Universitaet Kaiserslautern Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3906 PGP Key fingerprint = 9F 56 54 3D 45 C1 32 6F 23 F6 C7 2F 85 93 DD 47
