Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 (beta) now available

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Adam D. Moss wrote:

> For footprint-watchers, here's 5.0-alpha's on-disk footprint:
> (gcc31 -Os, stripped)
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        50112 Dec 17 19:27 liblua.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        28640 Dec 17 19:27 liblualib.a
>
> ... and here's 5.0-beta's:
> (gcc31 -Os, stripped)
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        51848 Dec 17 19:27 liblua.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        30624 Dec 17 19:27 liblualib.a

The best way to measure code size of libraries is with partial
linking:

$ ld -r -o /tmp/liblua4.0-partial --whole-archive liblua.a
etc

On Debian/SPARC 3.0, (gcc-2.95.4, default flags plus popen)

nop@slothrop:~$ size /tmp/libl*
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  52464       0       0   52464    ccf0 /tmp/liblua4.0-partial
  62080       0       0   62080    f280 /tmp/liblua5.0-partial
  28192       0       2   28194    6e22 /tmp/liblualib4.0-partial
  37348       0       0   37348    91e4 /tmp/liblualib5.0-partial

Just for laughs:

 458620   27064    1184  486868   76dd4 /tmp/libtcl8.3-partial

Jay