On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:27:47AM -0400, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Fri, 2011-22-04 at 09:09 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > We can > > actually make the "perl6" executable file itself as small as > > 50K, but the first thing it then does is load a several-megabyte > > Parrot bytecode library. > > > > But overall answer to your question -- yes, we expect that > > improvements in Parrot (better serialization, better bytecode > > formats, better object system) will enable us to significantly > > reduce the current size of the perl6 executable. I don't know > > by how much, but a 50% reduction in size doesn't seem unrealistic. > > Does this 50% reduction in size apply to the library above (perl6 50kB, > parrot lib sMB) ?
Yes -- the reductions primarily come from reductions in the bytecode (which will be the same in both cases). > Could one make further optimizations to the Parrot bytcode library via > native libraries ? Probably not -- at least not until there are some significant changes to Parrot bytecode itself. By "Parrot bytecode library" above what I really mean is "Parrot bytecode that implements the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler and Perl 6 libraries." Pm
