Ruby for OpenMoko

[Varga-Háli Dániel]

Some updates:
I cross-compiled Ruby and it became 9.1MB. I didn't remove anything yet.

Dan

On 5/27/07, Varga-Háli Dániel <vargadanis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was playing around with Ruby and Python just to see how they are
> when compiling. I got some interesting results. Without taking
> anything out (that means I compiled everything that came with the
> package) I got these:
> - Python: 19MB (with -Os -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 options)
> - Ruby: 9.6MB (with Os -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 options)
>
> I did not optimize it to ARM920t this time but this should not be an
> issue. That means Ruby is about 10MB smaller. (I got -0.8MB when I
> used these options for Ruby) That is significant. Also, if I remove
> some of the seldom used packages, I think it is possible to get it
> around 7-8MBs that is not bad for such a functional language. There
> are other options for optimization. I will try them and I shall see
> which one is the best. I didn't optimize it for anything that means
> the code does not include any specific instructions. Maybe, by giving
> it the arm920t options, the code will be even smaller.
>
> Do you think, it is still too big to get it into the distro?
>
> Dan
>