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Re:Complete List of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Enhancements by makecheck on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @05:43PM (#650054)
It's funny to see them market the fact that Mac OS X takes up less disk space. While this is true, I'm sure the only reason is because all bundled apps and frameworks no longer contain PowerPC chunks in their universal binaries.
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Re:Complete List of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Enhancements by dchest on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @06:10PM (#650099)
Bertrand Serlet said something about compression in the keynote.

Also note that the largest part of application size is not in binary, but in resources (images, nibs, etc.)

Edit: also, all major apps are compiled with 64-bit support (and should run on 32-bit systems), thus it's minus ppc, but plus x86_64, which has a larger code size.

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Re:Complete List of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Enhancements by GHFigs on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @11:22PM (#650498)
HFS+ in Snow Leopard has transparent compression for read-only files. I think that probably counts for more than stripping binaries.
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