09-23-2009, 05:50 PM
RAMd®d wrote:
...based on Snow's footprint?
It's a lot smaller than Tiger, but I think a big part of that is the lack of installing by default of Additional Languages, Additional Fonts, and Printer drivers. I never installed those, ever.
Combined that with Apple's New Math, I'm wondering how much room really was saved by weeding out PPC code.
I saw an article where someone from Apple pointed out that although they removed the PPC code, then then added the 64 bit Intel code (in addition to the 32 bit Intel that still remains), and that a lot of the footprint savings was from using compression on a lot of framework packages.