> I don’t recall that disk size was ever something we’ve optimized or tracked. Why is it important?
If you're targeting application developers, minimizing the system requirements (including size-on-disk) for an installed app that embeds Servo is going to matter.
Other resources' usage (memory, I/O) tends to scale up with size on disk. And empirically, the more code you have, the slower your program runs.
Lots of folks in this thread brought up Electron and Servo being a potential replacement for it, but the preview build is already larger than Electron today.
If you're targeting application developers, minimizing the system requirements (including size-on-disk) for an installed app that embeds Servo is going to matter.
I don't know how much it matters, though.