> Although I only have some warm words to give right now, I appreciate
> this effort very much.
>
> My current work is preparing the port of a *nix program written in
> (free) pascal from pure GTK1 (sort_of_a_nightmare(void) ;) to lazarus
> and make it cross platform.
>
> This thingy will be running on an embedded board with Geode CPU at 300
> MHz (or even less) and every second in startup counts.
>
Maybe the system unit itself can be reorganized. Probably not, but system
causes exe
to be minimum 30kb. This is no big deal for most applications, but for small CGI
applications which lots of people would be building (such as web counter
programs or
a web home page) the small compilation size does make a difference for quick
uploading and prototyping of the web program.
So you have an application for small exe's which is an embedded system, and I
have an
application too: small CGI programs and utilities that help me get work done
faster
and stop waiting for uploading times through ftp.
Now for CGI programs we have it all figured out - place all the common
functions in a
DLL and then call on them through the CGI program. Then the cgi program is
tiny and
the DLL is only uploaded to the server once ever. But CGI is still 30KB minimum
in
this case. Not so bad uploading a 30KB cgi.. but could be better. Some PHP
files (big
scripts with lots of comments) are even 30KB.
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