From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:42:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200805141652.m4EGqikr018644@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200805151529.m4FFTlF1004684@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <482D8435.6060407@gnu.org> <20081030101819.GA15223@orion.lan> <200810311507.m9VF7EAl022755@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <873ai7t7fx.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87iqqwk672.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <873ahym8ji.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87r65flh5n.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227818565 23529 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2008 20:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 21:43:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L5ni9-0003o4-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:43:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5nh0-00076U-4i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:42:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5ngu-00074R-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5ngt-00073m-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40634 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5ngt-00073Y-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:44297) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5ngq-0003Tz-UT; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KB000H00EXDDH00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:44:16 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.156.55]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KB0005V6EXRCMD0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:44:16 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106251 Archived-At: > From: Richard M Stallman > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:17:49 -0500 > Cc: emanuele.giaquinta@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > evilborisnet@netscape.net, jasonr@gnu.org > > As a result, now the executable is 10,671,313 bytes on > GNU/Linux. It's still 1.6M bytes larger than Emacs 22, but > I'm not sure it's worth making more effort to reduce it. > > Thanks forn doing the work to shrink it. > > It is no disaster to be 1.6 meg bigger. Btw, I think we should be comparing the sizes of .data section (and maybe some other similar sections), rather than the size of the executable file on disk. The latter typically includes debug info and also the code, which typically grows in later releases.