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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: git binary size...
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:26:17 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601111021450.5073@g5.osdl.org> (raw)


Guess what the difference is here?

	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ du -sh bin/
	14M     bin/
	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ du -sh bin/
	5.8M    bin/

Give up?

In one case, "git" was compiled with the default options in the git 
Makefile. In the other one, the "-g" was removed.

Now, maybe this is extra visible with PowerPC (32-bit) binaries, and it's 
not as bad on x86, but it's still a bit distressing.

That "-g" doesn't buy users much of anything, and I doubt most developers 
care that deeply most of the time either (and can easily add it when they 
do care). It's left-over from long ago when it was much more useful.

So I'd suggest just removing it.

		Linus

             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-11 18:26 Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-01-11 19:14 ` git binary size Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:39   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-11 19:54     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:56       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-11 20:00         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-11 19:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11 19:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-11 19:58     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-12 10:15     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-12 13:49       ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-12 17:37         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-12 18:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 18:32           ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-12 18:46           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 19:16             ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-20 18:00           ` Jon Loeliger
2006-01-12 18:12       ` Linus Torvalds

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