[Interest] Qt5 --> Qt6 dramatic increase of binary sizes under macOS

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 2 June 2023 04:37:14 PDT Alexander Dyagilev wrote:
> Yes, this is it. I did not know about such a thing (macos universal
> binaries). Thanks! :)

They've been around since the PowerPC days. They were quite popular during the 
last processor transition exactly because of that, then later when the 64-bit 
platforms came online. Also used on iOS when the iPhones started switching 
from 32- to 64-bit.

There was a time when some binaries came with four slices (ppc32, ppc64, i386, 
x86_64). As far as I know, no one has ever done five (adding x86_64h to those 
four).

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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