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) ? Could one make further optimizations to the Parrot bytcode library via native libraries ? -- --gh
