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

2013/7/3 Andrey Semashev

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Tom Kent wrote: <...>

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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. I did not compare library sizes purposefully, but it is very possible to be

the case. If you build the complete version of the library, the resulting binaries are expected to be large. Someone else asked me a similar question on the SF, and the answer is, well, because there is lots of code in there. The setup library is especially big because it contains rather complicated Boost.Spirit parsers for filters and formatters and it instantiates parsed filters and formatters for all fundamental types. Multiply that by the number of character types the library supports.

Those are lame excuses. Remove duplicated code (a big part of Boost.Log is a reinvented Boost.Thread). Do not generate so many parsers (type erasure?). Created a ticket #8773 (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8773) -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin