Re: 10.5.5 Released!!

In article <6j81fuF1u2gqU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ian McCall <ian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's 321MB on an iMac G5, so I doubt it's the 64-bitness.

Presumably the updates are compressed, which would remove most
of any 64-bit overhead.

G5 is 64 bit too though.

It's a 64-bit processor, but the G5 system binaries are not 64-bit in
the sense of using 64-bit addresses. I don't think it has any effect
on the size of most programs or libraries.

Leopard has 64-bit versions of the x86 UI libraries, which must
increase the size of updates just by having two versions, even if the
system binaries are 32-bit.

-- Richard
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