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andymulhearn is offline andymulhearn
2005-12-06 , 13:23
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#10
Originally Posted by tonikitoo
hey andy (hope that's an acceptable short version of your name as well ).
Yep

That's a good and hard to anwser question. Well, we had some time ago a guy working full-time on compile options for code reduction, and we reliazed that it wouldn't be a piece of cake getting significant reduction through this path.
I guessed as much. Short of crippling the browser by removing features, I guess there's not much that can be done.

But if you check the your target_dir/ (after 'make install') after building minimo, you'll notice some directories not relevant for us (they are for minimo, not for manaos), like

____'chrome'

[sbox-meamo: /usr/lib/mozilla-manaos-engine] > du -sh chrome/
3.0M chrome

____'res' - it could be also removed out (at least partially)

[sbox-meamo: /usr/lib/mozilla-manaos-engine] > du -s res/
928 res

, isn't it a good start point ?! I got 4 mb easily.
Definitely a good start

We are working on the mozconfig file as well. I hope to get 11 mb before the end of this year !

that's what I can say for instance ... What do you think ?
It's a very good improvement. I looked on my 770 and the Opera executable is around 4meg, though that doesn't included any specific libraries which are required. It also doesn't stop it using up to 21meg of RAM with some web pages though - the Lost episode guide for example And when you have two of those running for some reason, there's not a hell of a lot of memory left to run anything else.