Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jun 2008 22:15 UTC
Apple has already announced the successor to Leopard, called Snow Leopard, during the WWDC not too long ago. They explained that Snow Leopard would not focus on user-visible features, but instead would deliver performance improvements and resource footprint reductions. One of the measures Apple has taken is the size reduction of application bundles, which has resulted in dramatic weight loss for a lot of applications. AppleInsider has found out what exactly Apple has been doing to lose that much weight.
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2005-07-12
if similar changes were made to the printer drivers - it's ridiculous to have 2.1 gigs of printer drivers, much less a third of that being nothing but Epson.
The not removing unused elements of the library in the linker would explain a lot about the heft of OSX. Given that the applications on the whole tend to be self contained packaging all elements of a library, even those that are unused would indeed be unneccessary bloat - but an easy thing for a programmer who doesn't even understand what a linker IS to miss.
Edited 2008-06-28 00:13 UTC