[ptomato]

Just as a side note, the "gigabytes of cruft" mentioned cut from Snow Leopard curiously comes to almost exactly the size of removing the PPC binaries from Leopard.

[dchest]

1. They removed PPC, but added x86-64 (which has larger code size).

2. Binary is not the largest part of an application bundle (e.g. Mail binary [ppc, i386] is 5.7 MB, Mail.app bundle is 286 MB).