There can be multiple reasons. The "official" binary could be stripped.
There could be a different compiler used. All sorts of reasons.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Phani Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> any inputs please?
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Phani Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have downloaded node 0.10.31 source and built on my Linux machine. The
>> source is just as it is and no changes made at all. The build is successful
>> but when I compare bin/node file size with the one from binary downloaded
>> there is around 800kb difference.
>>
>> What is the reason?
>>
>> Did I miss any optimizer or special config? Actually I wanted to use
>> locally build node (after some change) in production. I just don't want to
>> miss some settings here.
>>
>> My environment:
>>
>> gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)
>>
>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 21 2013, 10:50:32)
>> [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
>>
>> LSB Version:
>>  
>> :base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
>> Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
>> Description:    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
>> Release:        6.5
>> Codename:       Santiago
>>
>> Thanks
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