I missed joshua's size reports. Mine's just a stock compile on a recent ubuntu. Not sure why it's that much larger.
-Michel On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Ishigo, Kelvin K <[email protected]> wrote: > Is that 2.7MB with debug symbols? That's way too big, we are talking flash > as the delivery medium for the code. Others below seem to see around 400k > stripped for a linux .so. > Thanks > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michel Pelletier > [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 10:22 PM > To: ZeroMQ development list > Subject: Re: [zeromq-dev] embedding zeromq question > > How small does it need to be? My 3.0.0 libzmq.a is 2.7MB. I'm not > sure how far you'll get trying to trim the library down by hand. > Everything has a purpose, there is little or no superfluous code. > > -Michel > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Ishigo, Kelvin K <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The zeromq functionality makes tremendous sense to me. I have worked my way >> through the guide, using the python examples to see how it flows. I've >> built several messaging type IPC's and have no desire to generalize them to >> multiple processes. It will come down to code size. Maybe we can do as >> others did and statically link but I would rather be able to trim out >> functionality via a smart linker, or if needed, by hand. It would depend on >> how modular the internals of libzmq are. >> Thank you. >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] >> [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Foster >> [[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 9:54 PM >> To: ZeroMQ development list >> Subject: Re: [zeromq-dev] embedding zeromq question >> >> The low-latency nature of ZeroMQ makes it ideal for embedded platforms. >> As of 3.x, ZeroMQ has no external dependencies (2.1 needs libuuid). My >> Windows version is 180KB, and my OSX version is 380KB. Your runtime >> needs will depend on how large the messages are and the number of >> messages expected in the queue(s). >> >> Your benefit for 4-5 devices is a highly optimized, stable messaging >> solution that you don't need to write. The main features are messaging >> patterns (request/reply, publish/subscribe, and pipeline), >> re-connection, and atomic message delivery. I have found that I can >> develop applications much faster once I got over the initial learning >> curve. I would recommend reading at least the first chapter of the guide >> (http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#toc0). >> >> Joshua >> >> On 6/4/2012 8:29 PM, Ishigo, Kelvin K wrote: >>> Hello, >>> We are looking at distributed message queue solutions and zeromq looks >>> promising... but we deploy on an embedded linux platform(s) (2.6+) which is >>> hosted to several different processor architectures. >>> Our main question is whether zeromq is a suitable in this type of >>> environment where we are code footprint limited due to flash on the box. >>> Also, is it overkill since we are basically planning to "share" amongst a >>> limited number of devices (4-5)? >>> Thank you. >>> >>> If there are existing threads, please do point me to them as I do not wish >>> to rehash existing discussions. >>> >>> Kelvin >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zeromq-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
