Some packages that I install – which I assume contain nothing but code – are tens or even hundreds of MB. For example, I recently installed pytorch and the size of the binary was 428 MB.
How can there possible be that much code?
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Open it up and see? I don't know what to tell you beyond that. You downloaded it, you can inspect it yourself. At a guess, for pytorch, i would say it's probably from packaged dependencies. – mfinni Feb 12 '20 at 01:02
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I'm more wondering in general how packages can be _so_ large. This is obviously not all code. – jxmorris12 Feb 12 '20 at 01:57
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Binaries are generally going to be bigger than compiled code. The one example you gave, I answered below. – mfinni Feb 12 '20 at 03:54
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Looks like it's probably due to large .SO files that support multiple GPU architectures. If you want to skinny down the size, you could compile it yourself. https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/15591
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