Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: Large binary after compilation

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From: ron flory <ron.flory@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:49:46 -0500
Andrew Hood wrote:


Mine (Linux) unstripped is 47MB. Why should it matter? Disk and memory
is cheap.


 While generally true for workstations, embedded and other flash-memory
based systems often don't have that much space to begin with.  Having
8MB of free 'disk' space is often a rare luxury.  Also, program load
times will be unnecessarily increased.

 Its not too difficult to write a script to find all the executables,
then run 'strip' on them before building the system disk image.

ron