On 11 Jun 2009, at 10:52, Paul van der Zwan wrote:
On 11 jun 2009, at 11:48, Sami Ketola wrote:
On 11 Jun 2009, at 12:44, Paul van der Zwan wrote:
Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the disk
usage of Snow Leopard
is 6 GB less than Leopard mostly because of compression.
Either they have implemented compressed binaries or they use
filesystem compression.
Neither feature is present in Leopard AFAIK..
Filesystem compression is a ZFS feature, so ????
I think this is because they are removing PowerPC support from the
binaries.
I really doubt the PPC specific code is 6GB. A few 100 MB perhaps.
Most of a fat binary or an .app folder is architecture independent
and will remain.
And Phil Schiller specifically mentioned it was because of
compression.
They might just have changed the localized resources format from a
directory (English.lproj) containing loads of files into a zip file.
There's probably a better place to discuss this.
Cheers,
Chris
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