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From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Kernel Sizes
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:53:08 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180121225308.GD14536@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrJZveGz5V8UAcewFGi-vOZLy2LYKasoWXBw-BR0tvSPQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 21:24:27 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:
>
>> While you're at it, I heard once that the latest GCC *manual* (>500 pp at
>> last look) was larger than "the whole Unix distribution".  Is there any
>> truth to that?
>>
>
> compressed (gz), the entire v7 tape 3.5MB. The compressed (gz) source is
> 250k. Uncompressed tape is 11.5MB while the source is 1.1MB.
>
> gcc 7.2.0 compressed (gz) is 105MB. gcc/doc directory is 13.5MB:
>
>> tar tvf gcc-7.2.0.tar.xz gcc-7.2.0/gcc/doc | awk '{a += $5;} END {print
> a;}'
> 13,470,317
>
> So yea, gcc 7.2 manual is larger than the v7 distribution tapes.

It would be interesting to compare llvm.  Here are the most recent
FreeBSD packages (effectively installation tarballs).  gcc pales by
comparison:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  90,805,148 23 Sep 15:53 /var/cache/pkg/gcc6-6.4.0_1-13072ceeab.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  90,819,108 30 Sep 15:18 /var/cache/pkg/gcc6-6.4.0_2-d83317c1d0.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  305,101,072 16 Nov 18:30 /var/cache/pkg/llvm40-4.0.1_4-06c71eb2eb.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  341,208,492 19 Dec 17:05 /var/cache/pkg/llvm50-5.0.0_6-b3fff834c7.txz

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-21 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-20 18:11 Warner Losh
2018-01-20 18:33 ` Donald ODona
2018-01-20 19:22 ` Random832
2018-01-20 21:14 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-01-21  0:19 ` Warren Toomey
2018-01-21  1:41   ` Andy Kosela
2018-01-22  3:51   ` Warner Losh
2018-01-22  4:39     ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-22  6:53       ` Warner Losh
2018-01-21  2:08 ` Dan Stromberg
2018-01-21  2:13   ` Steve Johnson
2018-01-21  4:24     ` Warner Losh
2018-01-21 22:53       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2018-01-22  1:19         ` Steve Nickolas
2018-01-21 22:03 Doug McIlroy
2018-01-21 22:36 Doug McIlroy
     [not found] <mailman.4.1516572202.3873.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-01-21 23:42 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2018-01-22 10:46 Rudi Blom

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