On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 11:19:09 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 10:23:58 UTC, po wrote:
The first link says that Chrome is a *90* meg binary! Gawd
damn. Either they write some really bloated code, or modern
browsers require way too much shit to function.
The latter.
On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 10:34:05 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
i believe that he means "non-stripped binary".
I think that might be stripped: Chrome is gigantic, about as
big as the base install of an open-source unix like FreeBSD, ie
kernel and userland. That's why people compare web browsers to
OS's these days. ;)
That reminded me, here's a navigable treemap of their binary from
four years ago, made by the ninja guy, when it was "only" 28.5
MBs:
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/
His blog post from back then with a bit more info:
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/11/tree-maps.html
