Ken Ray wrote:
On 10/2/06 4:16 AM, "Ian Wood" <revlist at azurevision.co.uk> wrote:
On 1 Oct 2006, at 15:52, Malte Brill wrote:
One reason might be filesize. Universal apps are twice as big.
Some thought and tests show that that's simply not true... ;-)
Actually I think what Malte was trying to say is that Universal apps use two
full engines, and their size is additive. Looking at the raw engine size,
you have this (latest Rev 2.7.4):
Intel Engine: 1.7 MB
PPC Engine: 1.9 MB
Universal Engine: 3.7 MB
Even a UB Rev app is much smaller than many Mac apps for a single platform:
Adobe Reader 7: 84MB
iCal: 12.3MB
iPhoto: 36MB
Even Apple's Calculator, which was about 32k in Classic, is 2.1MB in OS
X for PPC.
The difference is often the collection of non-code elements in these
apps, with things that used to be efficiently stored resources now each
a separate file within the bundle, bloating the total size according to
the FAT minimums.
Thankfully Rev keeps such resources to a minimum, giving is a relatively
tiny standalone by contemporary standards.
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Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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