Does any body know if there is ruby binary not greater than 1MB? It
would be
better if smaller, because it would be implemented in space constraint
application like embedded linux system. TIA
soliton wrote:
Does any body know if there is ruby binary not greater than 1MB? It
would be
better if smaller, because it would be implemented in space constraint
application like embedded linux system. TIA
$ cd ruby-1.8.6/
$ ./configure
…
$ make
…
$ ls -lh ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 1.6M 2007-06-22 07:43 ruby
$ strip ruby
$ ls -lh ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 657K 2007-06-22 07:41 ruby
Mind you, that’s without any extensions.
Alex Y. wrote:
…
$ ls -lh ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 1.6M 2007-06-22 07:43 ruby
$ strip ruby
$ ls -lh ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 alex alex 657K 2007-06-22 07:41 rubyMind you, that’s without any extensions.
There’s another trick you can try – before the ./configure, type
export CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer"
This will optimize for space rather than speed and eliminate frame
pointers.
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
$ make
There’s another trick you can try – before the ./configure, typeexport CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer"
This will optimize for space rather than speed and eliminate frame pointers.
I get this:
gcc -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -DRUBY_EXPORT -rdynamic
-Wl,-export-dynamic -L. main.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o
miniruby
./lib/fileutils.rb:1206: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-linux]
make: *** [.rbconfig.time] Aborted
when I use those options.
Hi,
At Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:26:13 +0900,
Alex Y. wrote in [ruby-talk:256583]:
gcc -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -DRUBY_EXPORT -rdynamic
-Wl,-export-dynamic -L. main.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o
miniruby
./lib/fileutils.rb:1206: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-linux]
–disable-frame-address configuration option is necessary to
use -fomit-frame-pointer.
Andrew T. wrote:
when I use those options.
I think ruby really doesn’t like to be built with optimizations. I
believe the garbage collector in particular has problems with it.Andrew
This combination just compiled successfully on my Gentoo box:
znmeb@DreamGate ~/ruby-test/ruby-1.8.6-p36 $ set|grep CFLAGS
CFLAGS=’-Os -march=athlon-tbird -fomit-frame-pointer’
znmeb@DreamGate ~/ruby-test/ruby-1.8.6-p36 $ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2)
Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Ruby 1.8.6-p36, gcc 4.1.2 and CFLAGS=’-Os -march=athlon-tbird
-fomit-frame-pointer’
I doubt if the Athlon TBird piece is why mine worked and yours didn’t.
Alex Y. wrote:
I get this:
gcc -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -DRUBY_EXPORT -rdynamic
-Wl,-export-dynamic -L. main.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o
miniruby
./lib/fileutils.rb:1206: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-linux]make: *** [.rbconfig.time] Aborted
when I use those options.
I think ruby really doesn’t like to be built with optimizations. I
believe the garbage collector in particular has problems with it.
Andrew
Nobuyoshi N. wrote:
–disable-frame-address configuration option is necessary to
use -fomit-frame-pointer.
It’s not just that…
$ export CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer --disable-frame-address"
$ ./configure
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name…
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log’ for more details.
config.log led me to try this:
$ gcc -Os -fomit-frame-pointer --disable-frame-address test.c
cc1: error: unrecognised command line option “-fdisable-frame-address”
Is it just my build of GCC (4.0.3)?
quoth the Alex Y.:
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
Is it just my build of GCC (4.0.3)?
Shouldn’t that be:
$ export CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer"
$ ./configure --disable-frame-address
?
-d
Alex Y. wrote:
checking for gcc… gcc
- As far as I know, you don’t need “-fdisable-frame-address”. Mine is
working fine without it. - gcc 4.0.3 “should” work, but most versions of gcc 4.0 had some things
b0rk3d and 4.1 is in much better shape. I’m awaiting word from Gentoo
Central on when and how to upgrade to gcc 4.2 – since almost everything
in Gentoo is compiled from source, a compiler change is a very big deal
in some cases.
Alex Y. wrote:
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-linux]
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
Out of interest, what executable size do you get with that, before and
after stripping?
“-Os”:
$ export CFLAGS=’-Os -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-tbird’
$ ./configure --enable-pthread # required on my system because I have a
threaded Tcl/Tk
$ make
…
$ ls -l ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 znmeb users 637415 Jun 23 11:03 ruby
$ size ruby
text data bss dec hex filename
542399 3048 63928 609375 94c5f ruby
$ strip ruby
$ ls -l ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 znmeb users 548636 Jun 23 11:08 ruby
$ size ruby
text data bss dec hex filename
542399 3048 63928 609375 94c5f ruby
“-O2”:
$ make clean
$ export CFLAGS=’-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-tbird’
$ ./configure --enable-pthread
$ make
…
$ ls -l ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 znmeb users 778524 Jun 23 11:40 ruby
$ size ruby
text data bss dec hex filename
683954 3028 63928 750910 b753e ruby
$ strip ruby
$ ls -l ruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 znmeb users 690172 Jun 23 11:41 ruby
$ size ruby
text data bss dec hex filename
683954 3028 63928 750910 b753e ruby
So it looks like -O2 is a good bit larger than -Os. What I don’t know is
the speed penalty, or what yours will do if you substitute
“-march=pentium4” for my “-march=athlon-tbird”. My recollection is that
one of the gimmicks that enables -Os to generate smaller code is
elimination of 4-byte and 8-byte alignment adjustments whenever
possible, which would be a severe performance hit on floating-point work
but probably not in a Ruby interpreter.
I don’t plan to benchmark any of this, mostly because I’m interested in
the other extreme – waste as much RAM as you need and try all the
compiler optimizations to make the inner interpreter as fast as
possible. 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
make: *** [.rbconfig.time] Aborted
-fomit-frame-pointer’
I doubt if the Athlon TBird piece is why mine worked and yours didn’t.
Me too. Mine’s an Ubuntu Dapper install on a P4, gcc version 4.0.3
(Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5).
Out of interest, what executable size do you get with that, before and
after stripping?