Wondering about VM sizes

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Apr 12 04:49:05 UTC 2006


Ian Piumarta wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Looking at download sizes for Croquet today I was somewhat astonished 
>> by the size differences in the various VMs. Looking at the VMs in 
>> Croquet I find that the sizes for the platforms are:
>>
>>     Win32: 1,090,259 bytes
>>     Unix:  4,174,760 bytes
>>     Mac:   7,332,608 bytes
> 
> The Unix VM isn't stripped: there are > 3MB of symbols in there.

Ah! That explains it. So is the Mac VM 2x VM+Symbols?

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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