> >
> >
> > Ok, this is now in and the image is now 22.7MB. with all examples,
> tests, tutorials, ConfigurationOf,
> > Metacello...
>
> Looks like we'll be able to start boasting about that...
>
>
> It is a first step... There is still a lot of duplicated and dead code,
for example. But aside from that:
We should really have a look into sharing e.g. identical large strings
(using a copy-on-write proxy) and compression...
e.g. Forms are compressed (see #hibernate) on shutdown. Why no do more like
that, but more late bound?
Most of the 22MB are not part of the working set... we could gain a lot of
space by compressing once as the last state of the build.
Another thing I would like to have is to compress the distribution images
and have the VM uncompress them on startup. LZ4 decompresses with
2GB/second *per core*... and the resulting image would be 12MB. This way we
could have .pharo images and just use those, no need to have
a zip on the build server.
Marcus
