172474 - RFE: Build not-often used code/modules with "save code space"-compiler option

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

RFE: Build not-often used code/modules with "save code space"-compiler option.

Both gcc and Sun Workshop have options to generate smaller code (e.g. turn-off
code optimisations which generate bigger code (loop unrolling, implicit function
inlining, force of explicit execution of postbranch code, etc.)) - it may save
some space to compile code which isn't used very often (like mailnews profile
migration code etc.) with such options...

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

->alecf

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

an interesting approach. I have no idea where to start on this though, as I
don't know configure.in / build flag stuff very well at all.

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

The matching compiler options are:
"-Os" for gcc
"-xspace" for Sun Workshop/Forte/Sun One

Comment 4

[Roland Mainz]

Can anyone run a non-debug build with stripped symbols on Linux/x86 and see how
much we gain with gcc and "-Os" ?

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

Futuring this. Someone feel free to take it.

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

I don't see any useful stuff in this bug for SeaMonkey specifically. Please
file new bugs in the correct places if there are still issues.