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Subject: Re: [boost] Extremely large Visual Studio libboost_log_setup* binaries
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-03 11:28:45


We're not talking about a bit bigger, these are bigger than all the rest
put together.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > In the 1.54.0 release, I noticed that the size of the binaries built with
> > visual studio was more than twice that of the previous releases. For
> > example the msvc-8.0-64 build went from 2GB to 5GB. Upon further
> > investigation, almost all of that increase was in the libboost_log_setup*
> > binaries, which were each in the 100s of MBs.
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is a reason for this? Is it a configuration
> > error?
> >
>
> Yes, these libraries are expected to be quite large, especially when debug
> symbols are on.
>
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