From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T01:17:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23975] Re: Ruby's distribution payload size

On Wednesday 31 October 2001 08:03 am, Mark Hahn wrote:
> How hard would it be to develop a utility to strip Ruby code that isn't
> used, to make the smallest possible distribution?  Would it require a
> fundamental change to the Ruby environment?

how would you detect it? You can't do static analysis; what about:

eval("p" + "uts" + " 3")

Also, it's hard to tell which methods a given message is going to call.

You could analyze the run of a program, but that would require that you had 
100% coverage, which is typically impossible for big programs.

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