From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 37269@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.)
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:12:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l1t8o4s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnki3is4.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:54:51 +0200")
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 MiB to ~23 MiB.
> There is no real drawback, the startup time is still well under
> 100 ms.
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?
Also, as an aside, I am tracking Next; thank you for this project!
--
Katherine
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-03 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-02 13:50 [bug#37269] [PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs Pierre Neidhardt
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2019-09-02 13:54 ` [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.) Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-03 14:12 ` Katherine Cox-Buday [this message]
2019-09-03 14:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-04 12:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-04 12:54 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-05 8:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
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