On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Armin Rigo wrote:
In the end the libpypy-c.dll is probably more compressible than
CPython's, so by compressing it you regain some of that factor. You
don't regain all of it by far, though. You don't get a complex JIT
compiler for free, for example.
So, just out of curiosity, with a very old and outdated version of upx:
File size Ratio Format Name
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
40565248 -> 7155712 17.64% win32/pe libpypy-c.dll
That's 7M! Surely the latest version must be able to do a bit better.
Now, the complete PyPy distribution, compressed with a very old and
outdated xz --best is around 14M, and it's even a bit smaller if you
compress the libraries with upx first.
I think that's a fair price to pay for a powerful JIT, isn't it? On top of
that, as I said, one might have some luck playing with the compiler flags,
but I think it's hardly worth it.
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
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