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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 17 Feb 1994 18:01:19 MST
Date: 17 Feb 94 20:43:27 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!pacbell.com!att-out!walter!flaubert!norman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Ramsey)
Organization: Bellcore
Subject: Icon is not *that* much bigger than tcl
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I looked that the numbers, and I may actually try using Icon as an
embedded language. Here's the size of executable and library versions
of the tcl stuff:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 norman 212992 Jan 31 15:16 /usr/public/bin/tclsh
-rw-r--r-- 1 norman 220690 Jan 31 15:01 /usr/public/pkg/tcl/lib/libtcl.a
And for Icon we have
-rwxr-xr-x 1 norman 327680 Sep 8 22:36 /usr/public/pkg/icon/lib/iconx
-rw-r--r-- 1 norman 390918 Sep 8 22:34 /usr/public/pkg/icon/lib/rt.a
Of course, this is a little unfair since Icon is not usable without a
separate translation step, whereas that's included in the size of the
tcl goo. But icont is not that big either:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 norman 122880 Sep 8 22:36 /usr/public/pkg/icon/bin/icont
The fast turnaround of tcl is one of its advantages, but the Icon
experiment might be worth trying. If I learn anything interesting,
I'll report it here...
--
Norman Ramsey
norman@bellcore.com