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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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: 37269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andy Patterson <ajpatter <at> uwaterloo.ca>, Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.)
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:54:51 +0200

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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.

Andy, Katherine, thoughts?

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

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