> cat touch.x86_64 | perl -p -e 's/\0//' | wc -c 19407 > cat touch.i386 | perl -p -e 's/\0//' | wc -c 19408 > otool -tV touch.x86_64 | wc -l

> cat touch.x86_64 | perl -p -e 's/\0//' | wc -c 19407 > cat touch.i386 | perl -p -e 's/\0//' | wc -c 19408 > otool -tV touch.x86_64 | wc -l 742 > otool -tV touch.i386 | wc -l 808 Hmmm. So, now what? The article mentioned Lion's touch(1) size, and I wanted to point out that it actually covers two arches. We know there is padding, alignment, headers and density whatnot. The end result is that makes a negligible difference between the two arches, hence "~half".