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[bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to co
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.) |
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Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:07:12 +0200 |
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Hello!
Katherine Cox-Buday <address@hidden> skribis:
> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
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>> 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.
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> This is a great idea and something I lost when I moved from
> self-compiling SBCL to Guix's version!
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> 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’ll have keep compression turned off.
Ludo’.