[erlang-questions] Lots of pre-built stuff in otp_src_R14B.tar.gz

[Peter Lemenkov]

2010/11/11 Raimo Niskanen <raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED>:

>> I just found that tarball with sources for R14B contains pre-built
>> *.beam files. Is it intentional?

> It is needed for the bootstrap process;

It  seems that the number of prebuilt files greatly surpasses the
number of ones actually required for bootstrapping. According to
README.bootstrap the only required binaries are
lib/{compiler,kernel,stdlib}/ebin/*.beam.

-- 
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.