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On Mon, 08 Mar 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote: > However, even 7-14Mb doesn't scare me. On any demand paged OS, if it's not > used, it's not paged in. I doubt that we have any platform where we're that > tight on virtual memory space for executables. It is also a little bit of an issue for people who distribute stand-alone applications written in Perl and bundled into a single executable with tools like PAR, PerlApp or Perl2Exe. Right now you can fine tune the size of your bundled Unicode support by for example removing the 4 big tables for the major Asian scripts and still have Unicode support for all the European languages. Having just one huge table would likely make this impossible. Having such a big footprint is also a huge drag on application startup time if they have to extract the table to disk every time the application is run (yes, you can leave the files behind in a cache area, but some people prefer not to leave stuff behind when the application exits). I would also be curious how good those 7-14MB could be compressed, as that too would make a big difference for the actual filesize of packaged apps. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next