From: Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T02:59:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24001] Re: Ruby's distribution payload size

--- Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org> wrote:
> Add in the actual Ruby executable out of /usr/local/bin,
> and, hmm... comes  out to exactly 1 megabyte. For 
> interpreter and complete runtime.
> 
(snip)
> So it does appear that Ruby currently has a reasonably
> lean runtime. 

I guess that depends on how you define "reasonably". 

Personally, I would love to distribute small Ruby apps in a
couple hundred K (the smaller the better). One of my
"eventually" projects is to figure out how to package up a
minimal Ruby with my apps.

Kevin


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