··@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti) writes:
>Would it be technically feasible to write a tree shaker for C, and
>apply it to the C files produced by Scheme->C ? I don't recall scc
>doing any sort of tree shaking itself.
It would be nice if there was one for C. As far as I know, most
linkers don't bother to shake the tree of dependencies between
files. If you link a library, usually you get every symbol in the
entire file, even if you only needed one function! The assertion
that C doesn't generate big images is false, precisely because
of this problem.
Bill
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