SPUG: Reducing perl's footprint? (embedded system lacks space)

[Chris Wilkes]

Hi,

  On the NoCatAuth mailing list someone posted with the annoying subject
of "Why Perl Blows" (which immediately got all my goats) which boiled
down to that it took up a lot of disk space.
  The linux kernel and bootloader came in at 1MB, the file system at
2MB, and perl at 2MB (way compressed, with all the .pod's stripped out).
  I thought there was a perl for embedded system project out there but I
couldn't find it.  Anyone have experience with building an
ultra-stripped down version of perl?
  He ended his post with "when is the C version of this code is coming
out?"  The obvious response is "when you get around to writing it"  I
couldn't see what size of memory card he was using, I believe it is this
model http://www.musenki.com/m-1.html which starts off with 32MB.

Chris

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