GNU bug report logs - #37269
[PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 37269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Andy Patterson <ajpatter <at> uwaterloo.ca>, 37269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37269: Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option
 to compress programs.)
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:12:35 -0500

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> This patch could be used by StumpWM and Next browser to compress the
> binary. For Next, this compresses the binary from ~100 MiB to ~23 MiB.
> There is no real drawback, the startup time is still well under
> 100 ms.

This is a great idea and something I lost when I moved from
self-compiling SBCL to Guix's version!

I am also not aware of any drawbacks, and I love that you implemented
this as an option in the build-system. Should we default it to true?

Also, as an aside, I am tracking Next; thank you for this project!

-- 
Katherine
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