Re: build optimizations

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:50:06PM +0100, Mike Pall wrote:
> > 2. The file all.c (aka one.c) allows Lua to be built as a single object file,
> >    and allows the compiler to generate better code and with just the Lua API
> >    as public symbols. We are considering building Lua in this way, so that
> >    liblua.a will consist of a single object file. Does anyone see a drawback
> >    to this?
> 
> This will prevent anyone from building Lua in a memory-limited
> environment.
> 
> E.g. the "make amalg" target of LuaJIT needs around 200-300 MB of
> memory for GCC. That's why it's not the default. Yeah, I know
> that's not much these days.

This could easily be a problem for us; some of our ARM build boxes only
have 128 or 256MB of RAM.  (Although we're slowly replacing them with
noticably stouter machines, it'd still be a problem.)

B.