In the last episode (Sep 20), James Tyson said:
I would argue that why can't Pike's target market be 486dx33's? I personally have tried to install pike on a 32MB CRAMFS partition on a embedded machine, and it just can't be done. This is a real pity because with things like it's easy to use HTTP stack and good networking it is an excellent choice for embedded applications.
I think real effort should go into making pike smaller, as well as making it bigger.
[jnt@rusty]~$ du -sh /sw/lib/pike/ 18M /sw/lib/pike
There are a few modules that consume more than their fair share of space:
291978 lib/modules/GLUT.so* 365146 lib/modules/____Charset.so* 403126 lib/modules/_Crypto.so* 530698 lib/modules/___GTK.so* 1994722 lib/modules/Image.so*
Not sure how many of the big ones you can remove and still have a useful pike. I also seem to remember this topic coming up somewhere a couple of years ago, but I can't find it in my archives.