OS X standalones: 2 questions

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> Has the size of the OS X engine grown in recent versions? A hello
> world stack compiled with Rev 2.1 on Windows 2K results in a standalone
> size of:
> 
> 2.06 MB Windows
> 4.43 MB Mac OS X (4.29 MB = executable, remainder is app package)
> 
> OS X builds have always been larger, but not 2.4 MB larger!??

What's inside the .app?

A lot of apps look really huge in OS X (Calculator was about 8k in Classic,
and is 1MB in OS X), in large part because he migration away from the
resource fork requires the .app folder to be filled with lots of tiny files,
and with file allocation being what it is a file with 300 bytes will occupy
at least 4k on a modest drive, more on larger drives.

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