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A full V8 is 8Mb on 32bit Windows and 12Mb on 64bit Windows, so not sure where that 40Mb is coming form.

• c-smile 5y ago
  Pure V8 - yes, close to 8 Mb - that is still larger than whole Sciter that beside of script VM contains HTML/CSS/Graphics, etc. 40 Mb came from Node.JS distribution (V8 + native runtime = node.exe). Sciter is more comparable to NodeJS as it includes good chunk of NodeJS alike runtime too.
  • ncann 5y ago
    While I appreciate the conscious size-saving effort, I need to ask: is 30 MB difference that big of a deal for desktop applications nowadays? A random Electron app that I download will easily take up hundreds of MBs disk space.
    • CamperBob2 5y ago
      That's the wrong question, IMO. The right question is, "Does it need to be that big?" The answer is "No." Things that are too big are usually composed of smaller things that are also too big.
      • 8note 5y ago
        The proper question is: what's the cost of it being that big? Is it acceptable? Is it worth making it smaller?
        • WastingMyTime89 5y ago
          I personally don’t think it’s acceptable and the disregard for files sizes generally extends to disregard for RAM usage which is even more unacceptable. Sadly I don’t really have a choice regarding using most of these apps.
• CamperBob2 5y ago
  Is it even possible to distill V8 into a single Windows DLL anymore? The version I use was about 3.5 MB in 2013. I tried updating it a couple of years ago, but quickly gave up and backed away, groping for the doorknob.
  • gigel82 5y ago
    It's possible though not straight-forward. React Native Windows seems to have a version of V8 wrapped with JSI (for use in React Native) though by the looks of the project, it appears to be only used internally and not really meant for stand-along consumption: https://github.com/microsoft/v8-jsi https://github.com/microsoft/v8-jsi