Why are beam files so large?

[Joe Armstrong]

In building my SAE I noticed that the beam files in R7B seem to have grown somewhat
and are about twice the size of earlier versions. Are they compressed by default? -
can I strip the string tables etc? -  can I reduce the size?

  /Joe 
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