Re: [boost] Extremely large Visual Studio libboost_log_setup* binaries

Subject: Re: [boost] Extremely large Visual Studio libboost_log_setup* binaries
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-03 13:11:10

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Antony Polukhin <antoshkka_at_[hidden]>wrote:
>
>> 2013/7/3 Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > <...>
>> > > > > example the msvc-8.0-64 build went from 2GB to 5GB. Upon further
>> >
>>
>> Linux kernel binaries weight 2mb, Firefox binaries weight ~100mb.
>> Libraries
>> of Boost.Log weight  ~3GB.
>>
>
> Strip the binaries and compare then.
>

Also, compare apples to apples. The OP mentions the space needed to build
Boost, not the size of the actual binaries you get.