[TUHS] Kernel Sizes

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 21:24:27 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:
>
>> While you're at it, I heard once that the latest GCC *manual* (>500 pp at
>> last look) was larger than "the whole Unix distribution".  Is there any
>> truth to that?
>>
>
> compressed (gz), the entire v7 tape 3.5MB. The compressed (gz) source is
> 250k. Uncompressed tape is 11.5MB while the source is 1.1MB.
>
> gcc 7.2.0 compressed (gz) is 105MB. gcc/doc directory is 13.5MB:
>
>> tar tvf gcc-7.2.0.tar.xz gcc-7.2.0/gcc/doc | awk '{a += $5;} END {print
> a;}'
> 13,470,317
>
> So yea, gcc 7.2 manual is larger than the v7 distribution tapes.

It would be interesting to compare llvm.  Here are the most recent
FreeBSD packages (effectively installation tarballs).  gcc pales by
comparison:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  90,805,148 23 Sep 15:53 /var/cache/pkg/gcc6-6.4.0_1-13072ceeab.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  90,819,108 30 Sep 15:18 /var/cache/pkg/gcc6-6.4.0_2-d83317c1d0.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  305,101,072 16 Nov 18:30 /var/cache/pkg/llvm40-4.0.1_4-06c71eb2eb.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  341,208,492 19 Dec 17:05 /var/cache/pkg/llvm50-5.0.0_6-b3fff834c7.txz

Greg
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