The archive size is misleading for two reasons: * the Northwestern snapshots include a lot more overall content by including tests, and
* compression on the installer counteracts the mistake where the content of ".zo" files is not individually compressed; uncompressed individual ".zo" files end up compressing better as a group. A new build is ready just now, where DrRacket starts and the size is changed (i.e., download size is moderately bigger, unpacked size is much smaller). At Mon, 5 Apr 2021 03:24:42 -0700 (PDT), Dexter Lagan wrote: > Looks like it's the opposite. At the moment Utah's is half the size. I'll > install the current Utah's and compare generated executables with 8.0 > release. > > Utah: > [image: Utah.png] > > Northwestern: > [image: North.png] > > On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 11:42:46 AM UTC+2 Dexter Lagan wrote: > > > Hi Matthew, > > > > It is indeed the one from Utah. I’ll give the other one a try and report > > back. Thanks for looking into this! > > > > Dex > > > > > > > > On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 8:32:00 PM UTC+2 Matthew Flatt wrote: > > > >> Hi Dex, > >> > >> Are you using a snapshot build from the Utah site --- as opposed to a > >> snapshot for Northwestern or some other build? > >> > >> I see that the Utah site's compiled code is twice as big as the > >> Northwestern site's compiled code. It looks like the build process for > >> Racket at Utah (via Visual Studio) misconfigures the "should compiled > >> code be compressed?" flag, while the build process used at Northwestern > >> (via MinGW) configures that setting correctly. The distribution builds > >> are made in the same way as the Northwestern snapshots. > >> > >> I'll fix the compilation path that the Utah snapshot uses, but it would > >> be good to know whether that could be the problem. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Matthew > >> > >> At Sun, 4 Apr 2021 02:19:28 -0700 (PDT), Dexter Lagan wrote: > >> > I updated to current again, and executable file size has nearly doubled > >> > again (120MB vs 70MB). I'd be curious to know if startup time wouldn't > >> be > >> > affected by file IO at this point. I'm using 7.9 BC 32 bits in > >> production > >> > atm, since it produces the smallest executables (12 MB!). > >> > > >> > Dex > >> > > >> > On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 8:07:00 PM UTC+1 Dexter Lagan wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hello there, > >> > > > >> > > Two things: > >> > > > >> > > - I noticed a doubling of executable file sizes (from 30MB to 70MB > >> for > >> > > racket/gui with embedded libs, Windows) between Racket 7.9 (non-CS) > >> and > >> > > Racket 8.0 (CS). Because of this, startup times from network drives > >> also > >> > > doubled (from 5 to 10s for gui programs when using CS). I had to > >> revert to > >> > > 7.9 non-CS for now; > >> > > > >> > > - Because of this, I have been trying to reduce file sizes to a > >> minimum. I > >> > > tried replacing racket/gui by a minimal list of requires to no avail. > >> I > >> > > tried using the raco demod function to demodularize, but it seems to > >> be > >> > > broken on recent version of Racket (anything beyond hello world will > >> quit > >> > > prematurely, racket/gui programs won't run at all). I tried GitHub - > >> > > bluerider/flattener: Source Code Level Flattener for PLT Racket > >> > > <https://github.com/bluerider/flattener> without success (seems > >> broken as > >> > > well). I also tried compressing executables with UPX, but it also > >> breaks > >> > > them. > >> > > > >> > > Does anybody know of a way to reduce final Racket executable file > >> sizes > >> > > / flatten / demodularize while keeping gui functionality ? > >> > > > >> > > Dex > >> > > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups > >> > "Racket Users" group. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > >> an email > >> > to [email protected]. > >> > To view this discussion on the web visit > >> > > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/a2a14107-01fb-4f36-b6e1-c02498f35 > > >> > 7adn%40googlegroups.com. > >> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email > to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/5e33921f-c751-40b5-89bc-fadc01bda > 506n%40googlegroups.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [image/png "Utah.png"] [~/Desktop & open] [~/Temp & open] > . > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [image/png "North.png"] [~/Desktop & open] [~/Temp & open] > . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20210405071817.312%40sirmail.smtps.cs.utah.edu.
