[MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

[Daniel Lopes]

Ops, sorry... small typo == isn't a big issue. Nobody cares for 10mb or 30mb
today.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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