[squeak-dev] Shrinking

Colin Putney colin at wiresong.com
Tue Jan 7 13:27:24 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>wrote:


> So it looks like the shrink works. It doesn't do much, though. My image
>> goes from 20.9MB, down to 20.3MB.
>>
>
> and (just to check) you've already done Smalltalk
> unloadReloadablePackages?  I managed to get down to a 12 Mb minimal trunk
> but I had to hack fix a lot of MNUs.  Basically we have work to do to make
> those packages really unload.
>

Yup, #unloadReloadablePackages is part of #shrink. I was able to get down
to about 19MB with no problems by unloading test packages. When I moved on
to unloading production code that I don't need, I started getting MNUs too.
I'll keep hacking at it until I see diminishing returns.

Thanks!

Colin
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