Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 08:37:38PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >                                                             bytes
> >
> >microperl, which has almost nothing os dependent (*) in it   1212416
> >shared libperl 1277952 bytes + perl 32768 bytes                      1310720
> >dynamically linked perl                                              1376256
> >statically linked perl with all the core extensions          2129920
> >
> >  (*) I haven't tried building it in non-UNIX boxes, so I can't be certain
> >  of how fastidiously features have been disabled.
> 
> "bytes" of what? - size of executable, size of .text, ???

Sizes of the executables/libs, code fully optimized -- and symbols stripped.

> If we are taling executable with -g size then  a lot of that is symbol-table
> and is tedious repetition of "sv.h" & co. re-itteerated in each .o file.
> 
> But the basic point is that these things are small.

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