[Ktechlab-devel] Anyone ever notice this? =P

[P Zoltan]

  Yes; it's caused by the debug information (for example I use the  
configure script with the --enable-debug=full).

  For instance if I remember correctly, I've once compiled pidgin wiht  
debug info... the result had something like 30MB main executable. After  
stripping, its size reduced to ~2MB.

  By the way, does the trunk compile for you (rev 532) ? For me, it  
complains about CurrecntSource constructor in ECCurrentSource  
constructor...?


On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:55:25 +0200, Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net>  
wrote:

> Anyone ever notice how absolutely ginormous ktechlab's binary size is?
>
> unstripped:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 atg tty 51,783,635 Oct 13 14:38 ktechlab
>
> (because linux is not half as good as a late version of DOS, I had to
> manually add the comas for readability...)
>
> stripped:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 atg tty  4,182,148 Oct 14 00:42 ktechlab-strip
>
> which is almost reasonable...
>
> This is one of the main reasons I've spent so much effort trying to
> crush as much complexity out of the program as possible. =\
>
> One of the biggest contributors is probably that we're carrying around a
> hefty chunk of qt cuz we need a customized canvas implementation...
>
> Ideally, this would be a separately maintained library that would be
> outside of the ktechlab binary...
>
> The other major factor is that we are maintaining, internally, a large
> parts library which should be externalized (for the most part), as a
> database.
>
> By way of comparison, kdevelop3's main binary is:
>
> atg at leenooks /usr/kde/3.5/bin $ ls -l kdevelop
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 425761 Sep 28 02:59 kdevelop
> ***UNSTRIPPED!!!***
>
> Seamonkey web browser?
>
> atg at leenooks /usr/lib/seamonkey $ ls -l seamonkey-bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 723289 Sep 25 23:57 seamonkey-bin
> (again, unstripped)
>
> I'm sure you can find many other applications to weigh ktechlab
> against... The moral of the story is that we have a problem. (which I
> knew about years ago...)
>