[Epiphany] Re: Footprint work - minimo

[dougt netscape com (Doug Turner)]

Doug Turner wrote:
> Pete Collins wrote:
> 
>>
>>> New Support in Minimo:
>>>
>>> Disabling xpinstall, js component loading, allowing a simple single 
>>> profile, and removed obsolete file abstractions.  Currently we are at 
>>> 8mb in terms of disk footprint at around 15mb in memory footprint.
>>
>>
>>
>> 8mb uncompressed?
>>
>> I have 24mb uncompressed and 7mb compressed w/ bzip.
>>
>> Doug can you clarify 8mb uncompressed disk print?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --pete
>>
> 
> I don't have a static build right now and this build contains some intl 
> work i am doing (which I will announce later).  Note that it is a total 
> of 13 MB not 8 MB.
> 
> I will double check what I did to generate the 8mb number (it may be do 
> to my misunderstanding of the mZ tinderbox test case.  This test case 
> reports today 8.85 MB.  I understood this to mean binary size, but I 
> think it just means "code" size.  If this is the case, i apologize for 
> citing bad info).
> 
> Also this isn't mozilla, it is a custom build of TestGtkEmbed and 
> required "stuff" built from the minimo branch.  I would guess this would 
> be more important to you than the mozilla client, right?
> 
>  > du -h Embed/
> 52K    Embed/defaults/pref
> 56K    Embed/defaults
> 8.7M    Embed/components
> 12K    Embed/res/dtd
> 28K    Embed/res/builtin
> 36K    Embed/res/entityTables
> 188K    Embed/res
> 324K    Embed/chrome
> 13M    Embed
> 
> However, will all of that said, I think that ephiphany should also 
> investigate using the GRE.  Blizzard and I have been spending some time 
> to ensure that the GRE doesn't suck on linux.  Using this approach would 
> allow you not to worry so much about disk footprint since the GRE would 
> be shared among multiple applications.
> 
> I am going to give a talk in a few week on the GRE.  I will try to make 
> sure it is recorded to so that you can listen or watch it.  Of course, 
> your welcome to attend.  If you are interested, just drop me a line.
> 
> Regards,


Oh!  Found it.  Building as a static build shaves the disk footprint to 
under 9 mb.
-- 
Doug Turner
dougt@netscape.com