[gambit-list] Strategies on decreasing executable size for Gambit-based software for client distribution
Bradley Lucier
lucier at math.purdue.edu
Sat Oct 4 03:01:50 EDT 2008
On Oct 4, 2008, at 2:51 AM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
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>
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Mikael More wrote:
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>> 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
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> (##define-macro (use-fast-bignum-algorithms) #t)
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> in lib/_num.scm to
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> (##define-macro (use-fast-bignum-algorithms) #f)
and then do another "make"
>
> then you should reduce the executable size by some amount (I forget
> how much).
>
> Brad
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