Re: Xcode executable size?
Re: Xcode executable size?
- Subject: Re: Xcode executable size?
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:53:53 -0700
On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:36 AM, B.J. Buchalter wrote:
Hi Folks,
Further to my own question, I did not realize that the executable
was not
stripped automatically in a release build; this accounts for a
substantial
fraction of the bloat,
If you use xcodebuild (man it) and do an "install" build for your
final product it should do default stripping. Of course you can
configure Xcode how you want or take the stripping step over for
yourself in you build system. We do the later so we can
generate .dSYM files and archive those as needed then do maximal
stripping.
but the CW executable is still smaller than the Xcode
one even after debug symbols are stripped. Is this "just the way it
is" and
nothing to be overly concerned about?
Hard to answer without knowing differences in the configuration of
the compiler and linker. It could simply be a result of different
alignment of code (functions starts, loop starts, etc.), a result of
more/less inlining, poorer dead stripping, differences in code
generation, etc.
You can disassemble the executable and dig around to looking for such
difference is you really want. :)
-Shawn
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