Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/10/03:04:19
On 7 Jun 1996, Martin Krieger wrote:
> `#include <iostream.h> / int main() {cout << "Hallo, Welt!\n";}' compiles to
> `TEST.EXE 158.101 07.06.96 23:21' Why is this nice little program so
> extremly huge? Is there a way to shrink it? (Any plans for optimizing
> linkers like that one Borland Pascal has?)
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Are you *really* interested in the size of a toy program like that? Most of
> the overhead ... stays almost constant for much larger programs. ...
fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us wrote:-
> While toy programs are vastly larger than the same thing compiled with
> TC/BC/MSC, a real program of significant size tends not to be. ...
The extra bulk that Martin Krieger complains of, is NOT insignificant for a
user who has to keep a lot of compiled djgpp .EXE's. In a nearly full disk,
such extra bits of store usage per file add up.
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