2016-10-20 9:07 GMT+02:00 Aliaksei Syrel <alex.sy...@gmail.com>: > As I understand, Pharo for PC should not make any assumptions about user's > hardware. If gpu accelerated backend can not be used there should be still > a performant fallback backend which also needs a fallback that is > guaranteed to work even on Personal Calculators. (Taschenrechner). That is > why library is so big. For example for mac and windows Sparta is shipped > with 3 (!) backends that together build fallback chain, for instance on > windows: direct2d1.1, skia, cairo. Compiling library for mac without Skia > reduces binary size from 15mb to 10mb. Removing GL package and leaving only > software backends may reduce size even more. > > It is a bit different on embedded systems, since hardware configuration is > already known and there is no need to have so many fallback backends. > Library itself allows developers to add new exotic backends quite easily. > > Let's take Pharo6 for mac. It is shipped with the following libs: > Cairo (1.4mb) + Pixman (2.8mb) + Freetype (0.8mb) = 5mb > > Moz2D is self contained and does not require any additional libs. > Moz2D = 15mb, Moz2D without Skia = 10mb. Moz2D without Skia and GL = ? > (estimate around 6-7mb). >
Also imaging that we will remove Cairo, Athens, Fonts from image, font plugin from VM. Also Morphic and old Canvas. I expect Morphic is much bigger then Bloc. And at some point bitblt stuff from image and VM. I am sure at the end new clean solutions will provide much lesser image and VM size.
