Thanks Adam that was just the info I needed. FYI, it would also appear that the packaging for Ubuntu has also stripped out the files for libv8 , as it gets installed as a separate binary package.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 657032 2009-08-07 16:30 libv8-0_1.2.14~svn20090807r2650-0ubuntu1~ucd1~jaunty_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18160620 2009-08-12 06:16 chromium- browser_4.0.202.0~svn20090812r23134-0ubuntu1~ucd1~jaunty_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379982 2009-08-08 18:05 chromium-codecs- ffmpeg_0.5+svn20090808r22838+1-0ubuntu1~ucd1~jaunty_i386.deb Nick On Aug 13, 7:01 pm, Adam Langley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:29 AM, codfather<[email protected]> wrote: > > I noticed that the size of the installation of these two builds , > > Google Chrome 3.0.198.1 and Chromium 4.0.202.r23182 were considerably > > different, and was wondering do they both use the separate libv8 - > > r2650 library? > > We don't support a separate libv8 library at the moment. However, the > Fedora packages, at least, do split v8 into its own library. Over > time, I believe that the V8 team are aiming at a stable ABI, but are > not there yet. > > There are many other reasons for a change in size between Chome and > Chromium. Chrome includes more code (ffmpeg 264, crash dumping etc), > is built with gc-sections etc. On the other hand Chromium probably has > RTTI removed which Chrome might not have picked up on yet etc. > > AGL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
