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Re:How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size by jbverschoor on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:39AM (#26283175)
Well it’s easy to assume that big companies do the work you’d expect. But I think the bigger the team, the less they care about all aspects.

Especially with A/B tests, because they are just temporarily

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Re:How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size by jakub_g on Saturday February 27, 2021 @06:56AM (#26284275)
Curiously, they've also had that issue and wrote a dedicated tool to clean up unreachable code after old A/B tests:

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/uber-piranha-unreachable-...

I also know it first-hand as just last week I've been doing a mega-cleanup of years-old A/B test flags in our own code.

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Re:How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size by jbverschoor on Saturday February 27, 2021 @10:37AM (#26285488)
tbh I'm actually surprised that the executables / code takes up so much space at all. I'm sure the executable has some embedded resources in as well, but 130mb for just the executable is quite a lot imo.
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