Why is Pale-Moon so big? #458

Why has Pale-Moon become so big that it even has to require at least 12G of filesystem space when compiling? I'm curious about knowing the exact reasons, so I though it would be better to ask the devs directly.

It's 14 million lines of source code. ;-)
Seriously, though, what do you expect from a modern web browser's build size? if you inspect the build/object directory, you can see the exact reasons; primarily it will be taken up by compiled object code. You can blame Mozilla for designing it in such a way (i.e.: monolithic resulting xul library).

If disk space for building is restrictive, then (on windows at least) you can reduce it by not using link-time code generation so you won't have large pseudocode files.

It's 14 million lines of source code. ;-) Seriously, though, what do you expect from a modern web browser's build size? if you inspect the build/object directory, you can see the exact reasons; primarily it will be taken up by compiled object code. You can blame Mozilla for designing it in such a way (i.e.: monolithic resulting xul library). If disk space for building is restrictive, then (on windows at least) you can reduce it by not using link-time code generation so you won't have large pseudocode files.

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Why is Pale-Moon so big? #458