Dylib, dyld and shared cache compression

Can dyld, dylib and shared cache be compress and decompress when required to solve storage problem?

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Are you asking whether:

  • There’s a way to configure your system to do this?

  • Whether Apple could add a mechanism to do this?

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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So, it sounds like you want to:

  1. Compress various Mach-O images on disk

  2. Create a kernel extension that decompresses them on the fly

Is that right?

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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