09-23-2009, 06:05 PM
GGD wrote:
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.
Yeah. The compression doesn't get a lot of attention, but it's an interesting feature.
According to Ars, 97% of the system's executables are compressed.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/200...10-6.ars/3#
I think that it's especially notable that after years of downplaying the use of resource forks, Apple has added yet another feature that relies upon them.