My general gut feeling is: compared to the amount of code in Erlang/OTP, Elixir, dependencies, and the code that Ash generates, the amount of code in Ash used for code generation is going to be minimal. And all of that to save memory on a box that most likely still needs to load hundreds of rows from a database concurrently.
If you really believe this is worth it, then the quickest way to explore/achieve this is by having a separate package that you won't include in releases. It will be available for compilation, but not runtime. On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 7:16 PM Zach Daniel <zachary.s.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all! This isn't a fully fleshed out idea, but something that I've > noticed especially with Ash Framework is how a *large* portion of our code > should only ever be called when compiling. > > What brought this to my attention recently is that there are tons of > places where we may do things like convert strings to atoms (not using > `to_existing_atom`), and currently we just tell sobelow to skip that > behavior because we know its only used at compile time. > > I'm aware that new code can be compiled at runtime, but my thought is that > we can also potentially, on an opt-in basis, allow users to omit this > compile time only code from their application, if they are *not* doing > that. With how much code exists in Ash that serves only the compile time, > I'm thinking this could significantly shrink the size of the code and its > base memory footprint. > > I don't know if the juice would be worth the squeeze here or not, and its > also very possible that there are reasons why, even if we wanted to, we > couldn't do this kind of thing > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/5e1a0a22-e47a-4595-9ed3-d0a331552251n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/5e1a0a22-e47a-4595-9ed3-d0a331552251n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JerLxvP1FU3wxT8N4p4yVWs-x3mo42eP5xS_4pjmchgQ%40mail.gmail.com.
