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Subject: [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to
 compress programs.)
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Cc: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, 37269@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello!

Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> skribis:

> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>
>> This patch could be used by StumpWM and Next browser to compress the
>> binary. For Next, this compresses the binary from ~100=C2=A0MiB to ~23=
=C2=A0MiB.
>> There is no real drawback, the startup time is still well under
>> 100=C2=A0ms.
>
> This is a great idea and something I lost when I moved from
> self-compiling SBCL to Guix's version!
>
> I am also not aware of any drawbacks, and I love that you implemented
> this as an option in the build-system. Should we default it to true?

Compressed files are opaque to the garbage collector scanner and to
grafting, so we could end up in situations like:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33848

(Which would be nice to address, BTW! :-))

Thus, I think we=E2=80=99ll have keep compression turned off.

Ludo=E2=80=99.