[webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove ENABLE(MATHML)

[Olivier Blin]

Le 24/10/2017 à 09:19, Frédéric WANG a écrit :
> On 23/10/2017 18:25, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> > From your description it sounds that what takes more disk space in MathML are
> > the needed math fonts, and that the amount of code added to WebKit when built
> > is in the order of hundreds of kilobytes, at most (BTW, do you have figures of
> > MathML enabld vs. disabled to confirm?). That being the case, it seems fine to
> > me that MathML support is always enabled.
> >
> > Usually my main concern with removing compilation guards is forcing additional
> > usage of megabytes of disk and/or memory in embedded platforms (which is, for
> > example, the case for ENABLE_VIDEO: for the GTK+ and WPE ports it completely
> > avoids the GStreamer dependency, which saves tens of megabytes!). But keeping
> > the guards to save just a few hundreds of kilobytes is certainly not worth it,
> > and in this case embedders can choose to not ship the math fonts.
> >
> > TL;DR: Fine by me, as it seems the compile flag only saves a few kilobytes in
> > the built binaries, and the math fonts can't be skipped anyway by embedders.
>
> Thanks Adrián. No, I wanted to do it during the Web Engines Hackfest but
> did not have time to try. Also, Olivier mentioned he would check the
> difference and tell whether it is significant or not for his project,
> but I have not heard back from him yet.

Hi,

The difference is about 250 kB on libWPEWebKit.so.0 for a WPE build on 
my ARMv7 target:

- without MathML : 37474160
- with MathML: 37726056

This can still be significant on low-end devices, with 128 MB of flash 
storage.

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Olivier Blin - SoftAtHome