On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Kay Roemer convinced my yesterday that I should try to strip mico
>as good as possible to get a slim version. I was very sceptical
>but here is what I did:
>
>1) I removed IR from mico and commented out every piece of code
>   using it. A hell lot of work :-(
>2) Removed DynAny
>3) Removed all the SSL Stuff
>4) Removed the POA and its policy stuff
>5) I wondered why buffer.pic.o was 20kB on Kays machine and
>   64K on my. Solution: Use mini-stl. This is no problem any
>   more since we dont use STL in KOffice (almost).
>
>And here is what I got :-)
>
>a) An ORB that compiles on a single PII400 in 3min,10secs!!!
>b) [weis@teutates weis]$ ls -l /opt/mico/lib/libtinymico2.2.7.so
>   -r-xr-xr-x   1 weis     users     1826776
>
>   1.8MB !!!!!
>c) The size of the account example is 43kB instead of 100Kb now!
>
>With the real STL I got 2.6 MB and 100kB accont example.
>The rest of the optimization was done with mini-stl.
>As you can see STL sucks !!!!!
>
>I am soooooo happy :-)

That's great news! Will we switch to such a tinyMico?

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