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> The size of the Cosmopolitan Qt Creator binary is around 230 megabytes While it's kind of expected it'd be big... that's really large. :(
by justinclift 2y ago
> The size of the Cosmopolitan Qt Creator binary is around 230 megabytes
While it's kind of expected it'd be big... that's really large. :(
- Y_Y 2y agoAt some point it's going to be easier to ship a fat binary of a compiler or bytecode interpreter along with a single representation of your application. And then the cycle begins anew.
- odux 2y ago[flagged]
- kevincox 2y agoWhat is the reference size? It is hard to compare. For many applications the size of "assets" like images, localization data and other stuff will vastly outweight the code.
- flohofwoe 2y agoI expect that's a statically linked executable which includes all dependencies for ARM and x86. If you add up the size of dynamic link libraries of a regular Qt Creator installation on macOS you get about 400 MBytes (those are universal binaries which contain both ARM and x86 code).
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- simjnd 2y agoAPE binaries usually come with an option to "assimilate": once downloaded, you can choose to only keep the stuff relevant to the platform you're currently using. Best of both worlds.