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

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

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Antony Polukhin wrote:

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2013/7/3 Andrey Semashev

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Tom Kent 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