[Splashy-devel] Splashy moving forward

[Otavio Salvador]

"Luis Mondesi" <lemsx1 at gmail.com> writes:

>> First, the binary size is quite huge (splashy is about 2M in our full
>> static build), which will make our initramfs consequently bigger, and
>> may lead to slower boot times.
>
> We tested boot times and it seemed that adding Splashy to the system
> from initramfs incremented boot time by 4 seconds. Since this was so
> negligible, we never really focus on optimizing the size of Splashy
> much. Now we can revisit that problem. At some point Otavio suggested
> that we drop glib2 altogether and implement everything using
> libc6+custom functions. But, this is a big task.

Yes. It does look like it should go this way.

I'll try to revisit it in near future.

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