Laurent,

Thanks! That is awesome!

Will this reduce the footprint of HotCocoa apps as well?

Thanks,

Gary


On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
> 
> As Matt said, it is possible to trim out your .app bundle to only ship what's 
> really needed. If you do not need the standard library and extensions, 
> removing them might free some memory. I believe the min. size is about 20MB 
> then (I'm not exactly certain though), for both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel 
> architectures. Of course removing 32-bit will free another 10MB.
> 
> There is an effort for the next release (0.7) to prepare a (much) smaller 
> runtime used during static AOT compilation. The resulted binary would not 
> contain LLVM code, and some Ruby features would also not be available. I 
> estimate the binary size to then be a couple of MBs (maybe less), but this is 
> an estimation :-)
> 
> Laurent
> 
> On Apr 7, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Daniel Lopes wrote:
> 
>> Hello, this is my first post here and I am new in the Apple Dev/MacRuby. I 
>> don't know if this the right mailing list, I don't found any other in the 
>> MacRuby site related to questions about development. So, if this mail isn't 
>> appropriate here please let me know.
>> 
>> Some days ago, in a sample app, I tried to embed the MacRuby Framework to 
>> distribute the app as a standalone package but the size of the app became 
>> huge.
>> 
>> There is some effort to make the embedded framework smaller or any 
>> tip/tricks that I should do to get small apps? Or all my apps will have 
>> 34mb? (It's not a big problem, just to know).
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
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