Hi joclem, You're probably referring to the LLVM compilation that MonoTouch 4.* provides. Miguel mentioned in his blog post of the release - http://tirania.org/monomac/archive/2011/Apr-06.html that his Tweetstation application went from 8mb to 6mb, which is quite a big gain.
Sadly I'm not smart enough to know *why* the size is smaller apart from to say that the LLVM compiler is smarter at compiling than the AOT compiler that comes by default with MonoTouch. I'm sure someone can probably pick up and answer with some more technical details if you're interested. Hope this helps, ChrisNTR On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Jeff Stedfast <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebastien, > > Did your Linker changes make it into 4.0.4.1? I thought they only made it > into 4.1 (which is not yet released)? > > Jeff > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Sebastien Pouliot > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Both MonoTouch 3.x and 4.x includes the MonoLinker which can shrink >> your application. The latest (Xamarin's) releases of MonoTouch 4 also >> includes several enhancements. See >> http://spouliot.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/smaller-monotouch-applications/ >> for a sample case. >> >> However it's very hard to predict the "gain" you can expect for your >> applications. Everything depends on: >> * what's being used by your application; and >> * if the recent enhancements will apply to your application (or not). >> >> That being said I encourage you (and others) to share their results >> :-) and fill bug reports if anything goes wrong with any of the linker >> options. >> >> Thanks, >> Sebastien >> >> p.s. you should consider using (or at least testing) the latest MT 4 >> anyway ;-) >> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, joclem <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've read that MT4 could reduce the size of apps (from miguel's tweet I >> > think). Does anybody has observe a size diminution when compiling with >> MT4 >> > vs MT3? I'm not ready to install MT4 yet (i'm in a beta stage). >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/App-size-MT3-vs-MT4-tp3733810p3733810.html >> > Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > MonoTouch mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> MonoTouch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > > -- ChrisNTR Microsoft ASPInsider http://weblogs.asp.net/chrishardy http://twitter.com/chrisntr
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