[webkit-dev] Enormous WebCore.lib on Windows (Release)

[Boyd Waters]

I ran into a similar problem with BerkeleyDB compiled with GCC, when I  
set '-O' to something other than '-O2'...



On Dec 31, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Brent Fulgham wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It recently came to my attention that the WebCore.lib built on Windows
> (using either the Cairo back-end or the official CoreGraphics
> back-end) weighs in at 1.2 GB for the release build, while the debug
> build is a relatively svelte 370 MB.
>
> Any idea why the Release builds are so enormous?  I would have
> expected the additional symbols in the Debug build to cause them to be
> much larger.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Brent
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