Re: oct files on Mac OS X

[Jonathan Stickel]

Thomas Treichl wrote:
> Jonathan Stickel schrieb:
> > Out of curiosity, does someone know why oct files are an order of 
> > magnitude larger in Mac OS X than in Linux?  For example,
> >
> > Gentoo linux, amd64, rand.oct:  48 kb
> > Mac OS X, i386, rand.oct:  757 kb
>
> Which distribution of Octave for Mac?
> I can see in Octave.app with 'ls -l'
>
>   50652 Sep 19 19:34 rand.oct
>
> So 2kB more than on Linux - that's ok for me.
>
> Thomas

I have octave installed via Fink.

I just noticed that liboctinterp.2.9.14.dylib is 160 MB on my Mac, while 
it is 10 MB in Linux.  Other standard system libraries do not have 
nearly as large a disparity.  I will check into this...

Jonathan