[webkit-dev] Ever increasing binary size

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Timothy Hatcher <timothy at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:12 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>
> WebKit nightly build for r135421 dated November 21st, 2012 was 46.1MB.
> WebKit nightly build for r145786 dated March 13th, 2013 was 49.4MB.
>
> Our binary size increased by 7.2% in just 4 months.
>
>
> Keep in mind that the Safari's Web Inspector is in the nightly. Also all
> of the frameworks and their resources are in the nightly twice (for 10.7
> and 10.8).
>
> Safari's Web Inspector framework is around 2.5 MB (uncompressed)
> in r135421 and 4.2 MB in r145786. A 68% increase (that I will investigate
> further). Most of that size comes from image resources that can't be
> compressed further by the disk image. They are also duplicated for each OS,
> but the disk image compression should cancel that out.
>
> Also the WebKit Web Inspector is in the nightly. It is 5.1 MB
> (uncompressed) in r135421 and 6.3 MB in r145786. A 24% increase. Again,
> mostly images.
>

That's an interesting point.  It would indeed be more interesting to track
the in-memory size of binaries than the file size.

I think the first course of action we can take is to start tracking the
binary size so that we may detect huge spikes.

- R. Niwa
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