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

Subject: Re: [boost] Extremely large Visual Studio libboost_log_setup* binaries
From: Jeff Flinn (Jeffrey.Flinn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-03 13:36:27

On 7/3/2013 1:11 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> 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.

FYI: QtWebkit as static lib: ~1.3GB

Jeff