As far as I know, firefox-bin is just a small loader application (akin to xulrunner, I think). It might just contain tons and tons of data without much actual code and as such isn't exactly the best benchmark.
Might be worthier to compare the shared objects instead, there are a few large ones amongst them. -mg > Well, the Native build is slightly larger .......... > > > foralie:/opt/# file generic.firefox/firefox-bin > generic.firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1 > [FPU], dynamically linked, stripped > foralie:/opt/# ls -l generic.firefox/firefox-bin > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 183568 Feb 24 17:56 > generic.firefox/firefox-bin > foralie:/opt/# file firefox/firefox-bin > firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1 [SSE2 SSE > FXSR CMOV FPU], dynamically linked, stripped > foralie:/opt/# ls -l firefox/firefox-bin > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 186024 Feb 24 20:33 firefox/firefox-bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 217 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080225/a214f3d0/attachment.bin>
