GNU bug report logs - #23077
Perl's closure is too big

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:31:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Perl's closure is too big
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:30:26 -0400
If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
such as openssl.

Does anyone familiar with Perl know if we really need to a reference
to GCC here?  Would be great to remove it. :)

- Dave




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bug#23077; Package guix. (Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:47:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thompson\, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
Cc: 23077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23077: Perl's closure is too big
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:46:27 +0100
"Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu> skribis:

> If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
> 138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
> default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
> Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
> such as openssl.
>
> Does anyone familiar with Perl know if we really need to a reference
> to GCC here?  Would be great to remove it. :)

I’m not familiar with Perl but I think we should get rid of that
reference—that and also Coreutils, Gawk, Binutils, and more:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/x2p2biyybcb2wac77qz9468asc5fm48i-perl-5.22.1            307.6    49.8  16.2%
/gnu/store/pg8nnqprjxgwhwiyh8nhbphzj53ax77i-gcc-4.9.3              138.2    77.1  25.1%
/gnu/store/43a6v9hslld0nx627nyr365zih1p41h5-make-4.1               106.9     1.2   0.4%
/gnu/store/l5d5pw7a3mg8smx120fgrjakd109qzbq-guile-2.0.11           105.7    16.1   5.2%
/gnu/store/gbg76f0x503bkjr1pcv1n37plph2b7ha-binutils-2.25.1         82.5    44.6  14.5%
/gnu/store/nl4g5nzfdy6fad6i1zgxp1gin5c73b47-coreutils-8.24          77.8    13.8   4.5%
/gnu/store/xqvwn89wb5ja81pxsy3m7lqlwq8mf3zw-gawk-4.1.3              75.2     2.9   0.9%
/gnu/store/5srj5qj6qhbwvrnlmnj8bihj6qbwb4v3-xz-5.2.2                73.4     1.1   0.4%
/gnu/store/8qqi9pjcpb8lph39g9ppyqzaq38hdvdg-bzip2-1.0.6             72.9     0.5   0.2%
/gnu/store/jbzyly3wcwbkhd9ai97d2a129i8rhpbk-readline-6.3            67.7     1.2   0.4%
/gnu/store/6fpfcqpm85k777rsdrb3d2pd91p2h4ll-ncurses-6.0             66.4     5.7   1.9%
/gnu/store/09gwygs9vdja1bkpyfqsb51rjzs7d5zs-libunistring-0.9.6      65.2     4.5   1.5%
/gnu/store/8v3jina1v71fi4n1gcs729jvrc777giy-file-5.25               64.6     3.9   1.3%
/gnu/store/1hc749rww6b4dzmmilz5qfri11k6087g-gmp-6.1.0               63.3     2.6   0.8%
/gnu/store/zx7fwds22418n3vjyh8qk55l2jh06ry0-gmp-6.1.0               63.3     2.6   0.8%
/gnu/store/qjzi4vvbqrpbjfdg8hvkv43qlkhcx0v7-libgc-7.4.2             62.5     1.1   0.4%
/gnu/store/36n9cb1rj8hnz5f43rh04kyqmipg8h9q-pkg-config-0.29         62.0     1.3   0.4%
/gnu/store/2m3yvag3bvsy812dqbvxmxlra2hcpwd4-acl-2.2.52              61.4     0.4   0.1%
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/gnu/store/64fk1rj1ykjd9miplzvgnz5bfyhwspw0-libltdl-2.4.6           60.8     0.1   0.0%
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/gnu/store/x8dmdlrn5qn0wrbcnngj55y3ab73h0pp-bash-4.3.42             49.5     4.7   1.5%
/gnu/store/0bxy0vmwf7l3nsz5yr71hmvay5aw9pw3-readline-6.3            44.8     1.2   0.4%
/gnu/store/bh25hb3hqr6dvxxhfm4hd9hjsxsf1f95-ncurses-6.0             43.6     5.7   1.9%
/gnu/store/sgzfawy95pfn7nsw3xvmca58llm5zzbc-glibc-2.22              37.9    36.5  11.9%
/gnu/store/1481x54il6kf3kcs03g997yaj86mfvkh-linux-libre-headers-3.14.37     3.3     3.3   1.1%
/gnu/store/h534pmpvqr5svh0vp238ndph4gv9g51i-bash-static-4.3.42       1.4     1.4   0.5%
/gnu/store/7sbnxbfwzxn4fwkpa10x07gb5hr5hh62-libatomic-ops-7.4.2      0.6     0.6   0.2%
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--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Ludo’.




Reply sent to ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès):
You have taken responsibility. (Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:04:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Notification sent to "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:04:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #13 received at 23077-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thompson\, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
Cc: 23077-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23077: Perl's closure is too big
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 23:03:44 +0200
"Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu> skribis:

> If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
> 138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
> default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
> Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
> such as openssl.

Fixed in 81cea47d4a4c0054beb234004b990d6f514d0514 on ‘core-updates’.

Most likely this was a regression introduced with the upgrade to 5.22 in
4de35074833742e45237464bb1727ce1a55f3336.  Previously the issue had been
addressed in f727ec5bc8a6f97ae1083026e508b917235dfd2d.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 05 May 2016 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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