[Pythonmac-SIG] 40% size increase for Universal?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Marc Hedlund wrote:

>
> I just did my first build of a Python app using the Universal  
> Python 2.4.3
> package, py2app-0.2.5-py2.4-macosx10.4.zip,
> wxPython2.6-osx-unicode-2.6.3.2rc2-universal10.4-py2.4.dmg, and
> pycrypto-2.0.1_py2.4.zip (which I found in the "Kitchen Sink"  
> package at
> <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Packages>).
>
> The resulting binary built on the first try, which is great.   
> However, it
> went from 11.5 Megs (previous build on Mac/Intel, using 2.4.1 and
> non-universal packages) to about 16 Megs.  Is that about par for the
> course?  Any suggestions for paring it down?  (The same binary on
> Windows/py2exe is about 5.5 Megs.)

It's expected that a universal build should be roughly 2x the code  
size. You're not going to pare it down very much, but compression  
solves most of these problems because there's a lot of redundancy.  
You should really only be looking at the zipped or dmg'ed size of the  
executable.

-bob