From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#23077: Perl's closure is too big Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:46:27 +0100 Message-ID: <878u1b7p98.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ai2yw-0003zv-0k for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:47:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ai2ys-0006wX-O8 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:47:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ai2ys-0006wT-Kj for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:47:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ai2ys-0001F7-Fq for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:47:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: (David Thompson's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:30:26 -0400") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Thompson, David" Cc: 23077@debbugs.gnu.org "Thompson, David" skribis: > If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing, > 138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's > default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'. > Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages, > such as openssl. > > Does anyone familiar with Perl know if we really need to a reference > to GCC here? Would be great to remove it. :) I=E2=80=99m not familiar with Perl but I think we should get rid of that reference=E2=80=94that and also Coreutils, Gawk, Binutils, and more: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- store item total s= elf /gnu/store/x2p2biyybcb2wac77qz9468asc5fm48i-perl-5.22.1 307.6 = 49.8 16.2% /gnu/store/pg8nnqprjxgwhwiyh8nhbphzj53ax77i-gcc-4.9.3 138.2 = 77.1 25.1% /gnu/store/43a6v9hslld0nx627nyr365zih1p41h5-make-4.1 106.9 = 1.2 0.4% /gnu/store/l5d5pw7a3mg8smx120fgrjakd109qzbq-guile-2.0.11 105.7 = 16.1 5.2% /gnu/store/gbg76f0x503bkjr1pcv1n37plph2b7ha-binutils-2.25.1 82.5 = 44.6 14.5% /gnu/store/nl4g5nzfdy6fad6i1zgxp1gin5c73b47-coreutils-8.24 77.8 = 13.8 4.5% /gnu/store/xqvwn89wb5ja81pxsy3m7lqlwq8mf3zw-gawk-4.1.3 75.2 = 2.9 0.9% /gnu/store/5srj5qj6qhbwvrnlmnj8bihj6qbwb4v3-xz-5.2.2 73.4 = 1.1 0.4% /gnu/store/8qqi9pjcpb8lph39g9ppyqzaq38hdvdg-bzip2-1.0.6 72.9 = 0.5 0.2% /gnu/store/jbzyly3wcwbkhd9ai97d2a129i8rhpbk-readline-6.3 67.7 = 1.2 0.4% /gnu/store/6fpfcqpm85k777rsdrb3d2pd91p2h4ll-ncurses-6.0 66.4 = 5.7 1.9% /gnu/store/09gwygs9vdja1bkpyfqsb51rjzs7d5zs-libunistring-0.9.6 65.2 = 4.5 1.5% /gnu/store/8v3jina1v71fi4n1gcs729jvrc777giy-file-5.25 64.6 = 3.9 1.3% /gnu/store/1hc749rww6b4dzmmilz5qfri11k6087g-gmp-6.1.0 63.3 = 2.6 0.8% /gnu/store/zx7fwds22418n3vjyh8qk55l2jh06ry0-gmp-6.1.0 63.3 = 2.6 0.8% /gnu/store/qjzi4vvbqrpbjfdg8hvkv43qlkhcx0v7-libgc-7.4.2 62.5 = 1.1 0.4% /gnu/store/36n9cb1rj8hnz5f43rh04kyqmipg8h9q-pkg-config-0.29 62.0 = 1.3 0.4% /gnu/store/2m3yvag3bvsy812dqbvxmxlra2hcpwd4-acl-2.2.52 61.4 = 0.4 0.1% /gnu/store/m7ac4hqvbyzf0fwjp5q85v6l8183r6h5-libcap-2.24 61.1 = 0.1 0.0% /gnu/store/83hq072klq4bj46l297ihwyp7wg3jy41-attr-2.4.47 61.0 = 0.2 0.1% /gnu/store/cx4dknnwm6dfha504hriss6nspilccz1-libffi-3.2.1 60.8 = 0.1 0.0% /gnu/store/64fk1rj1ykjd9miplzvgnz5bfyhwspw0-libltdl-2.4.6 60.8 = 0.1 0.0% /gnu/store/pkasxagsa4z4viscfpl6sjszmdmwncl1-gcc-4.9.3-lib 60.7 = 22.9 7.4% /gnu/store/x8dmdlrn5qn0wrbcnngj55y3ab73h0pp-bash-4.3.42 49.5 = 4.7 1.5% /gnu/store/0bxy0vmwf7l3nsz5yr71hmvay5aw9pw3-readline-6.3 44.8 = 1.2 0.4% /gnu/store/bh25hb3hqr6dvxxhfm4hd9hjsxsf1f95-ncurses-6.0 43.6 = 5.7 1.9% /gnu/store/sgzfawy95pfn7nsw3xvmca58llm5zzbc-glibc-2.22 37.9 = 36.5 11.9% /gnu/store/1481x54il6kf3kcs03g997yaj86mfvkh-linux-libre-headers-3.14.37 = 3.3 3.3 1.1% /gnu/store/h534pmpvqr5svh0vp238ndph4gv9g51i-bash-static-4.3.42 1.4 = 1.4 0.5% /gnu/store/7sbnxbfwzxn4fwkpa10x07gb5hr5hh62-libatomic-ops-7.4.2 0.6 = 0.6 0.2% /gnu/store/dyz3dsbxa3h4dzwaxv4ibjdl5hbj9w2f-zlib-1.2.8 0.4 = 0.4 0.1% --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ludo=E2=80=99.