Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 08/16/10 15:29, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> It grows as soon as certain pages are accessed. And - as already said - 
> unless the distinct functional (sub)modules are aligned into their
> own pages instead of randomly cat'ed to one big contigious text section 
> on linker's will, there's great chance that there're many, many 
> never-accessed areas within pages that still have to be accessed
> (and thus loaded).

So, doesn't gtk's code breakdown by functionality and the file naming
convention automatically provide such a submodule hierarchy?  All the linker
has to do is to link them in the order provided on the commandline.  Then all
of the following will be in a big unused chunk if you don't use the
filechooser stuff:

gtkfilechooser.lo
gtkfilechooserbutton.lo
gtkfilechooserdefault.lo
gtkfilechooserdialog.lo
gtkfilechooserembed.lo
gtkfilechooserentry.lo
gtkfilechoosersettings.lo
gtkfilechooserutils.lo
gtkfilechooserwidget.lo
gtkfilefilter.lo
gtkfilesel.lo
gtkfilesystem.lo
gtkfilesystemmodel.lo


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