[MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

[Matt Aimonetti]

Daniel, can you explain why you think it's a big issue? Maybe we can help
with some temporary solutions.

- Matt

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Lopes <danielvlopes at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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