Asset catalog size is 50% bigger if I remove iOS 7 from deployment target

Originator:guilhermesampaio
Number:rdar://22797681 Date Originated:09/22/2015
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:Xcode 7.0
Classification:Bug Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
Asset catalog size of the Xcode archive is 50% bigger if when I remove iOS 7 Deployment Target.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the sample code 
2. Change the deployment target to iOS 7
3. Archive the project 
4. Open the the archive and then open the application inside products
5. The Assets.car size is 179kb
6. Change the deployment target to iOS 8
7. Archive the project 
8. Open the the archive and then open the application inside products
9. The Assets.car size is 326kb

Expected Results:
The Assets.car size of the iOS 8 archive should be more or less the same size of the Assets.car size of the iOS 7 archive. 

Actual Results:
The Assets.car of the iOS 8 archive is 54% bigger 

Version:
Xcode 7.0 (App Store version) 


Notes:
The sample project is just to ilustrate the problem. On my real application after archive we went from 136mb to 210mb. This is way more then we would expect. 

Configuration:
Xcode 7.0

Attachments:
'ImageCatalogSize.zip' was successfully uploaded.

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