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What is all the weight in that "touch" binary? It can't be code. My guess would be that the format is just not optimized for size and contains a bunch of boiler

• haberman 7y ago
  I just ran Bloaty (https://github.com/google/bloaty https://github.com/google/bloaty) on /usr/bin/touch from Catalina, and I got this: $ bloaty `which touch` -d segments,sections --domain=file FILE SIZE --------------- 55.1% 19.6Ki __LINKEDIT 91.7% 18.0Ki Code Signature 2.7% 544 Symbol Table 1.9% 376 Lazy Binding Info 1.6% 328 String Table 1.2% 232 Indirect Symbol Table 0.6% 112 Binding Info 0.2% 32 Export Info 0.1% 24 Function Start Addresses 0.0% 8 Rebase Info 0.0% 8 Table of Non-instructions 0.0% 0 [__LINKEDIT] 22.2% 7.90Ki __TEXT 35.0% 2.77Ki __TEXT,__text 33.6% 2.65Ki [__TEXT] 17.2% 1.36Ki [Mach-O Headers] 4.2% 339 __TEXT,__cstring 3.4% 274 __TEXT,__const 3.3% 266 __TEXT,__stub_helper 1.9% 150 __TEXT,__stubs 1.5% 120 __TEXT,__unwind_info 11.2% 4.00Ki __DATA 94.9% 3.80Ki [__DATA] 4.9% 200 __DATA,__la_symbol_ptr 0.2% 8 __DATA,__data 11.2% 4.00Ki __DATA_CONST 98.4% 3.94Ki [__DATA_CONST] 1.6% 64 __DATA_CONST,__got 0.3% 104 [Mach-O Headers] 100.0% 35.6Ki TOTAL So 2.77Ki of actual code in "__TEXT,__text". Those [__TEXT], [__DATA], and [__DATA_CONST] sections are the part that is lost to padding, so 10.4Ki or so. Disclosure: I am the author of Bloaty.