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Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
With C, I can drastically reduce the size of the source code by
using a
cruncher utility: this reads in the C source and emits an
equivalent but
smaller source file by removing whitespace, comments, renaming
locals to
smaller versions, etc.
My lstrip does all that, except rename locals; but it's in C.
Unfortunately lstrip isn't suitable for me, but looking it up on
Google
led me to LuaSrcDiet, which does pretty much what I want (...except
locals); so thanks anyway.
Runing LuaSrcDiet on pm reduces it down to 58%, which isn't bad.
Unfortunately, once this is bolted on to the Lua interpreter source
itself, this turns into a real reduction of the resulting binary to
95%
- --- which is barely worth measuring.
Local renaming would improve that no end, as I tend to use fairly long
variable names, but I suspect what I really need is a better C
cruncher.
It ought to be possible to Huffman encode all symbol names by creative
use of #define. Hmm...
