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Haven't heard of Servo before so was excited about the possibility of a lean new engine, but was pretty deflated when the preview build is 200Mb+ on disk (80Mb
by gigel82 6y ago
Haven't heard of Servo before so was excited about the possibility of a lean new engine, but was pretty deflated when the preview build is 200Mb+ on disk (80Mb just for the main exe). It's possible some of it comes from the unoptimized extras like the JS engine, media libraries, etc.
- SimonSapin 6y agoI don’t recall that disk size was ever something we’ve optimized or tracked. Why is it important?
- webmaven 6y ago> I don’t recall that disk size was ever something we’ve optimized or tracked. Why is it important? If you're targeting application developers, minimizing the system requirements (including size-on-disk) for an installed app that embeds Servo is going to matter. I don't know how much it matters, though.
- gigel82 6y agoOther resources' usage (memory, I/O) tends to scale up with size on disk. And empirically, the more code you have, the slower your program runs. Lots of folks in this thread brought up Electron and Servo being a potential replacement for it, but the preview build is already larger than Electron today.