[MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

[Daniel Lopes]

Thanks Laurent, but I also think the size of apps in Mac dev is a big issue.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Gary Weaver <gary.weaver at duke.edu> wrote:

> Laurent,
>
> Thanks! That is awesome!
>
> Will this reduce the footprint of HotCocoa apps as well?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> As Matt said, it is possible to trim out your .app bundle to only ship
> what's really needed. If you do not need the standard library and
> extensions, removing them might free some memory. I believe the min. size is
> about 20MB then (I'm not exactly certain though), for both 32-bit and 64-bit
> Intel architectures. Of course removing 32-bit will free another 10MB.
>
> There is an effort for the next release (0.7) to prepare a (much) smaller
> runtime used during static AOT compilation. The resulted binary would not
> contain LLVM code, and some Ruby features would also not be available. I
> estimate the binary size to then be a couple of MBs (maybe less), but this
> is an estimation :-)
>
> Laurent
>
> On Apr 7, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Daniel Lopes wrote:
>
> Hello, this is my first post here and I am new in the Apple Dev/MacRuby. I
> don't know if this the right mailing list, I don't found any other in the
> MacRuby site related to questions about development. So, if this mail isn't
> appropriate here please let me know. Some days ago, in a sample app, I tried
> to embed the MacRuby Framework to distribute the app as a standalone package
> but the size of the app became huge. There is some effort to make the
> embedded framework smaller or any tip/tricks that I should do to get small
> apps? Or all my apps will have 34mb? (It's not a big problem, just to know).
>
> Thanks.
>
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