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0 pointspritambaral7y ago0 comments

How large and invasive is the Dart runtime though? Running in a VM and running with a runtime are only so far apart. And I'm interested in distribution package sizes too.

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afsina7y ago

Here is some info: https://flutter.io/faq/#how-big-is-the-flutter-engine

gcb07y ago

in summary : a minimal UI app goes from 40k of java code to 6700k of compressed dart code

afsina7y ago

Not compressed, compiled to machine code.

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0 pointspritambaral7y ago0 comments

How large and invasive is the Dart runtime though? Running in a VM and running with a runtime are only so far apart. And I'm interested in distribution package sizes too.

0 comments

afsina7y ago

Here is some info: https://flutter.io/faq/#how-big-is-the-flutter-engine

gcb07y ago

in summary : a minimal UI app goes from 40k of java code to 6700k of compressed dart code

afsina7y ago

Not compressed, compiled to machine code.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse