J. Gareth Moreton <gar...@moreton-family.com> schrieb am Sa., 9. Nov. 2019, 16:20:
> > On 09/11/2019 15:14, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > > > >> Competitions aside, there are times where space is a premium, whether > >> it be from distributing an application on a DVD, bandwidth or data > >> limits (even some first world countries are still on dial-up in > >> places, or are otherwise monopolised by a single, bad-quality > >> provider), the smaller capacity of solid-state hard drives > >> (especially on some laptops) and can otherwise be a money saver > >> sometimes. > > > > I tend to think more size gains can be obtained from more aggressive > > smartlinking. > > The smartlinking is sometimes disabled by the way code is written. > > > > To give an example, pas2js has a switch to convert published to public > > sections. As a result, the published sections are suddenly reduced to > > what is actually used in code. This produces significant size gains. > > > > Michael. > > _______________________________________________ > > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > That's true. That's mentioned in the "size matters" article. I didn't > know about 'published' until then. Presumably, if that switch doesn't > exist (like with most of the LCL), I gather the only way to strip out > those unused published sections is some very intelligent whole-program > optimisation, and even then it may not work if a string (to access a > property name) is not deterministic. > For the LCL it's simply not possible, because it relies heavily on the RTTI. And in the future that will only increase with extended RTTI. Regards, Sven >
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