I would like to use Parrot on an embedded microprocessor system. It needs a minimal parrot that should only run precompiled bytecode, nothing else, and it does not even need the PGE (eventually, it would need JIT for PowerPC or MicroBlaze). But it should be very small (say <250K). I compiled parrot --without almost everything (no debug, no gmp, no gdbm) but the library is still several MB. I've read "Parrot for small platforms" in pdd01_overview, it says "For small platforms, any parser, compiler, and optimizer modules are replaced with a small bytecode loader module which reads in Parrot bytecode and passes it to the interpreter for execution." I guess that's what I need; but I have no idea how to compile parrot this way. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
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