Dean Arnold wrote:
And one other thought: is there any open request for stripping comments and
POD from included modules ? After strolling around the PAR storage
directories,
I saw that the modules were included as ia, and in some cases, stripping
out
the comments and the POD might help reduce the overall size (and hence
the bootup time) significantly. Maybe this could be accomplished with a
one-way filter ?
To respond to my own post:
The desired capability exists, tho it doesn't seem capable of handling
my application. I've just discovered/tried the -F Obfuscate option.
It seems to encounter a number of issues while trying to strip
some modules (things that don't parse as expected, not my modules,
but installed modules, including one or 2 core modules). It does
reduce the size of the executable, but by only about 250K. Worse still,
it apparantly breaks something, since the executable won't even start
now (gets numerous
Global symbol "somesymbol" requires explicit package name at
<some temp directory/ModuleName
errors and gives up). Also tried Bytecode, with similar disappointing
results.
But since it doesn't seem to reduce size or startup time much, I guess
we're back to splashscreens.
Regards,
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.
