Size of executable almost triples

[Moritz Warning]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:11:27 -0400, Stefan wrote:

> Do you have a similar effect with Linux? You mentioned strip, what does
> it exactly?
> 
strip removes all debugging and symbol information from a binary.
Afaik, you can't link the binary afterwards or debug it properly,
but that's often no problem for release builds.

Anyway, it's not a workaround for the increased file size.