[Mono-devel-list] String constants and localization

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

    Some real data from Mono today:

-rw-r--r--    1 miguel   miguel    1743872 Jul  9 17:18 System.dll
-rw-rw-r--    1 miguel   miguel      15950 Jul 14 19:05 strings
-rw-r--r--    1 miguel   miguel    3593216 Jul 11 22:49 corlib.dll
-rw-rw-r--    1 miguel   miguel      46542 Jul 14 19:05 strings
-rw-r--r--    1 miguel   miguel     470016 Jul  9 17:18 System.Xml.dll
-rw-rw-r--    1 miguel   miguel      30299 Jul 14 19:05 strings

    Those probably the most used assemblies in an embedded system, and
we are talking of a grand total of 90k (180k if you use ucs-2) of
embedeed strings.   

    A large stretch from those 3-megabyte figures.

    This is without any hacks: on top of that you could do plenty of
hacks (described previously) to shrink those more.

Miguel.