King InuYasha wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
King InuYasha wrote:
> I just saw this article about an effort to create Universal
binary style
> ELF binaries for Linux, and I thought that this would be
something to
> watch, so that Fedora could integrate both x86-32 and x86-64
into single
> DVD sets.
>
> http://icculus.org/fatelf/
Yuck!!! Please don't infect GNU/Linux with this completely
braindead crap!
This wastes a lot of disk space and download bandwidth and
probably also
increases loading times for NO reason whatsoever. It also doubles
the build
times for any and all software. Just figure out what arch your
machine is
and install the correct package for your arch! Fat binaries are a
method to
make crappy binary-only software distribution easier, they have no
room on a
Free Software system. Let the Mac folks keep their fat crap and
leave our
binaries as native for the appropriate arch!
Kevin Kofler
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I dunno, it could be useful for Live CDs/USBs. It would let you pack
multiple arches onto a single LiveCD/USB.
Yeah, but they'd be larger, forcing removal of software from the images.
You sound like one of those crazy people that disregard everything
that may slightly help proprietary software. It's probably possible to
strip out arches when they become unneeded, if so desired. I know it
is possible under Mac OS X to do that. If you had a system that had
extra arches you didn't need, you probably could just go and strip
them out to save disk space.
So. . .then why do it? There are practical considerations here.
There isn't much proof to your statement about loading fat binaries. I
don't notice a slow down in load times of Universal binaries on my
Mac, but I do notice the disk space. As it is, Snow Leopard now uses
Universal binaries to pack x86_32 and x86_64 into a single application
container and can strip out PowerPC binary code.
Don't knock it till you try it...
Strip out where? Build time, install time, or run time?
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