Major reduction in package's file size?

[em-777]

I'm on Artix Linux and I recently upgraded to the latest version of the SuiteSparse package. I noticed that the file size of the package dropped from 180MB to just 4MB. The same is true with the package on regular Arch Linux. Why is that? Forgive me if this seems like a dumb question, but the massive reduction in file size just seems weird to me.

[mmuetzel]

It looks like they split GraphBLAS and LAGraph into a separate package:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/suitesparse/-/commit/b1759417b4bafca0a187fab8c9a639e8c2291b3f

That would reduce the size of the package for the remaining libraries a lot.

[DrTimothyAldenDavis]

GraphBLAS is a big compiled library by default. I do have an option to make it very small (GRAPHBLAS_COMPACT), in which case I compile the kernels as needed on the fly, via my own JIT. But the linux distros are still using the full sized GraphBLAS I think. Before adding the JIT, a compact GraphBLAS would be slow; now it's just as fast once the kernels are compiled.