Wow Theo. I just made a Hello World console app because I was sure
you were spouting off about something you knew nothing about, and my
Hello World console app is all of 16K. The XCode c version (which has
absolutely no framework to link in at all) came in at 3K. 13K seems
reasonable for an event dispatcher, etc.
I wonder if you're using your elfdata plugin in your console apps.
That's probably jacking up the size of the built app a bunch.
REALbasic's linker can't strip out unused methods in your plugin. You
have to do that work yourself. Don't all plugin developers figure
this out on like, day 2?
-Brad
On Feb 20, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
Now that RB can make shell apps, it's large size is more of a
problem than ever.
A shell tool is supposed to be a small tool that loads as fast as
possible. This way, you can make many small tools, that can
cooperate with each other and be chained or piped to each other in
funny unix ways.
You'd expect a shell tool to load and quit many times per second,
because some apps need to call them many times per second, but with
RB it can take a few seconds to load the RB made shell tool :(
So, let's say one RB shell tool takes 2MB. In C it could be done in
8K.
Now lets say you needed to make 5 of these tools to cooperate with
each other. Lets say in C the total size would be 40KB. With RB,
it's 10MB.
So you get a 10BMB download instead of a 40KB download. And all of
this makes for slow coding.
It's not really the unix way of doing things.
Shame really.
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