GNU bug report logs - #23077
Perl's closure is too big

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:31:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thompson\, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
Cc: 23077-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23077: Perl's closure is too big
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 23:03:44 +0200

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu> skribis:

> If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
> 138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
> default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
> Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
> such as openssl.

Fixed in 81cea47d4a4c0054beb234004b990d6f514d0514 on ‘core-updates’.

Most likely this was a regression introduced with the upgrade to 5.22 in
4de35074833742e45237464bb1727ce1a55f3336.  Previously the issue had been
addressed in f727ec5bc8a6f97ae1083026e508b917235dfd2d.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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