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[PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Katherine Cox-Buday
 <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andy Patterson <ajpatter <at> uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add
 option to compress programs.)
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:54:06 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Compressed files are opaque to the garbage collector scanner and to
> grafting, so we could end up in situations like:
>
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33848
>
> (Which would be nice to address, BTW! :-))
>
> Thus, I think we’ll have keep compression turned off.

Actually, in this case it doesn't.  I tried with Next and the resulting
package keeps all references to the Common Lisp libraries.
I believe that SBCL only compresses the image, not the sources (which are
embedded as well).

Anyways, I won't turn it off for now.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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