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Re:Xcode 8.3 produces binaries 3x larger than Xcode 8.2.1 by anderscarling on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:19PM (#13992133)
Would be interesting to see numbers for the compiled, stripped and thinned binary the end user will download from the App Store (they are in the details view for the app build on iTunes Connect). My guess is that at least most of the change should go away there.

With bitcode, app thinning and what not in the mix the Xcode build artifact is so much different from what's actually being downloaded it's hard to tell if this radar has real world implications for anyone but the developer uploading the build to apple. Still interesting, and potentially annoying though.

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Re:Xcode 8.3 produces binaries 3x larger than Xcode 8.2.1 by bdash on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:38PM (#13992202)
The Apple bug report was filed by my colleague, JP, after we noticed that the built size of Realm's frameworks dramatically increased after updating to Xcode 8.3. We pay attention to the built size of our frameworks as we distribute precompiled versions of them (https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/releases), and a signifiant size increase inconveniences our users. We've not tested the impact of the size on an app installed via the App Store, but since the increase is limited to the bitcode portion of the binary we have no reason to think it will be affected.
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