Re: Reducing the size of Lua.

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@...>]

FYI, my copy of lua.exe built with MINGW weighs in at 159906 bytes...
when I use upx to compress it, the disk footprint shrinks to 103074
bytes.

I've built Lua 4 on the ARM platform (running under Linux) without
floating point support and got the binary to under 70k (without
compression) statically linked with one of the non-glib libcs. I feel
pretty confident Lua 5 could do the same.

-joe

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:10:56 -0500, Joseph Stewart
<joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
> What size do you want it to be (both on disk and runtime size)?
> 
> What are you trying to accomplish?
> 
> -joe
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:45:55 +1100, Greg McCreath
> <Greg.McCreath@tafmo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Ashwin,
> >
> > We certainly want the parser in the device.  I guess we could go back to
> > v4, but then we've got ourselves down a dead end street.  No more bug
> > fixes.
> >
> > The language looks perfect and very powerful.  We just need to make it
> > smaller and then make sure it can run at an acceptable speed!
> >
> > All help appreciated.
> >
> > Greg.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
> > [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Ashwin Hirschi
> > Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:33 AM
> > To: Lua list
> > Subject: Re: Reducing the size of Lua.
> >
> > > What options do we have to reduce the size of the Lua.  We do not need
> > > many of the newish language features.  I notice a steady progression
> > of
> > > complexity since the earlier releases (Coroutines and such).  Can we
> > > remove them?
> >
> > Things definitely seem to be getting more complex alright...
> >
> > How about having a look at Lua 4? I'm not sure if it's actually smaller,
> > but... it doesn't contain all the newer stuff [;-)].
> >
> > Also, I remember the parser could be decoupled in earlier versions. Not
> > sure if that's still the case, though. I've never done this myself.
> > You'd have to rely on precompiled scripts, for this option to be viable.
> >
> > Ashwin.
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