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From: Armel Asselin (asselin.armel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-05 13:50:20


> Armel Asselin wrote:
>> ok so i'll try the 1.34, any idea of the size of the binary (.lib/.a)
>> for that feature (just the necessary part of ICU+boost::regex?). i'd
>> be really happy if it could take a few
>> dozen KB :-)
>
> If you statically link to Boost.Regex it adds about 50K to your
> executable,
> if you dynamically link the .so is a lot larger though. Enabling ICU
> support doesn't change the size of Boost.Regex much, but ICU itself is a
> big
> binary: there's no way around that since if you actually want Unicode
> support then the Unicode character database is *big*.
>
> John.
Argh, the database is as large as my app... Is it imaginable to use the
regex stuff with my own traits class (maybe supporting a few less stuff
thann ICU??)

Armel


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