title: What are best practices to decrease the size of static libraries in objective-c?
body: <p>In building an objective-c static library, I noticed that the .a file (fat file from simulator and iPhone) is quite large. In particular, it was originally 5.7mb. I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11722986/static-library-has-big-size">this post</a> and set my build settings <code>Generate Debug Symbols</code> to No, decreasing the lib size to 1.7mb.</p>
  
  <p>This was a big improvement, but is there anything else that can be done? The implementation and header files alone take up ~100kb.</p>