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Jan Engelhardt

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Message 43552 - Posted: 6 Nov 2004, 13:56:23 UTC

I really wondered why the setiathome_4.02... binary (that BOINC
auto-downloaded :-) is

-rwx------ 1 boinc users 7375729 Oct 21 15:28 setiathome_4.02_i686-pc-linux-gnu

7.3MB in size! Look, I just did a strip on it and 6 MB fell off:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1005124 Nov 6 14:52 sah.stripped

It would be way more convenient to strip the binary first before it is
distributed (7 MB take their time on 64kbps). Yes, I know I could compile it
myself (using -O3 -g0 even), but this is truly a request to the SAH
developer team.
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Message 43847 - Posted: 7 Nov 2004, 8:40:46 UTC

Yes, it is somewhat large.

My own compiled SETI client is only about 750K in size (see links below)

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*** My Guide to Compiling Optimised BOINC and SETI Clients ***
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