Re: [Factor-talk] Minimal exe

2015-01-28 Thread John Benediktsson
The last couple releases we've been growing a bit in our binary deployment sizes, you can see some of that in the commented out tests here where we assert the image sizes should be "small enough": https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/basis/tools/deploy/deploy-tests.factor On Wed, Jan

Re: [Factor-talk] Minimal exe

2015-01-28 Thread Alexander Iljin
Hi, John! 28.01.2015, 18:56, "John Benediktsson" : > That gives you a "hello-world" binary of about 1 MB.  The "factor" binary > itself is about 480k, I think. So in general I agree with you that we could > use some trim-the-fat pull requests. Thank you for the reply! I did not mean to cri

Re: [Factor-talk] Minimal exe

2015-01-28 Thread John Benediktsson
Hi Alexander, I'm glad you're taking a look at Factor - the feedback is nice to get. Factor and Forth share similar-looking syntax, but Factor has a different set of internals and primitives that it builds with, for things like GC and arbitrary-sized integers (a bit like a "high level memory mana

[Factor-talk] Minimal exe

2015-01-28 Thread Alexander Iljin
Hi again! I've heard that Forth is implemented using a very small interpreter, which makes it a good language for the embedded domain. I've also read that Factor has a good optimizing compiler. These two propositions (if true) lead me to the following question for the community. Is there