On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Marc Feeley
<feeley@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
I've thought about implementing a "tree-shaker" solution which would
be closer to what you want. ... I'm not planning to try this
anytime soon but it should not be too hard to do
I've had the same feeling at least half-a-dozen times over the last 10 or 15 years ever since I first encountered a tree-shaker for Smalltalk image-size reduction. Fortunately the hardware guys have kept ahead of my urge to reduce resource usage, and I've never quite gotten around to implementing a shake pass for S2 - which was one of my goals for writing it in the first place.
IIRC, Stalin shakes the tree, but then you have to live with the Stalin dialect as well (which I don't have a problem with, but not everybody feels that way).
david rush