Re: [gambit-list] Strategies on decreasing executable size for Gambit-based software for client distribution

On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Mikael More wrote:

Is there any strategy using which one can compile Scheme code to binary form, in a way that only the functions used in the code is included in the binary? I.e. smaller binary for (display "Hello world\n") than for an application that uses cos, eval, open-tcp- client.

If, after a "make bootstrap" you change the line

(##define-macro (use-fast-bignum-algorithms) #t)

in lib/_num.scm to

(##define-macro (use-fast-bignum-algorithms) #f)

then you should reduce the executable size by some amount (I forget how much).

Brad