[Xorp-users] [Xorp-hackers] Fwd: Is there any way you 'r seeing , to get xorp (multicast part) under 6 MB form 10 MB

[Ben Greear]

On 06/10/2010 09:37 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 06/10/2010 12:33 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 06/10/2010 02:29 AM, Adam Greenhalgh wrote:
>>> I've often wondered whether this would be any good ?
>>>
>>> http://cxx.uclibc.org/index.html
>>
>> Might be interesting to see if xorp compiled against
>> it.
>
> Clang might be useful for the OP to check out too.
>
> http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
>
> I don't know how it does with binary size -- getting a 40% reduction
> isn't too easy -- but it may help.
>
> The OP may also want to seriously consider building statically and then
> using an executable packer like UPX:
>
> http://upx.sourceforge.net/
>
> No idea if this approach would bear fruit though.

That UPX thing looks cool, but if someone is tight on space,
hopefully they are already running a compressed file system, so
adding compression of the binaries might not gain too much.

Still, it would be neat see the results of a upx packaging!

Thanks,
Ben

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