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Looks like the real culprit is the primitive registration code.  This
can be done in a table.

strip scheme
ls -l scheme

# currently
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 44592 2009-08-11 11:28 scheme

# Ha!
# The prim table actually made it bigger :)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 45912 2009-08-11 11:34 scheme

# Changing the prototype of the function to take strings instead of
# symbols made it smaller:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 43936 2009-08-11 12:02 scheme

So it's really the code that generates the boot code that bloats the
binary.  Looks like a reader is what's needed to compress further.

Also, part of the data structures could be loaded as constants:
symbols and primitives are not GC-managed, so they could be defined as
constant data.

Another thing that leads to bloat is the tag shifting.  Can this be
simplified to a single AND + compare?

After separating the bootstrap code to lib.o i get these stripped sizes:

# gcc -m32
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  1256 2009-08-11 12:48 gc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 16116 2009-08-11 12:48 lib.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  2032 2009-08-11 12:48 main.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 12456 2009-08-11 12:48 scheme.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom   676 2009-08-11 12:48 symbol.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  1136 2009-08-11 12:48 task.o

# gcc -m64
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  1904 2009-08-11 12:49 gc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 18040 2009-08-11 12:49 lib.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  2640 2009-08-11 12:49 main.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 17344 2009-08-11 12:49 scheme.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  1176 2009-08-11 12:49 symbol.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom  1832 2009-08-11 12:49 task.o



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