Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:02:03 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Executable size: limit to acceptability?
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Matt Firewalker wrote:

> I'm concerned about what's acceptable with executable size using Allegro to
> create a -large- RPG.  Since I've never done an RPG with graphics (I've done
> other things, but nothing of this proportion), I'm not too sure about exec
> size.  What would be an acceptable size of the executable?

``Acceptable''--from what point of view?  The only real limit on the
size of an executable is the amount of DPMI memory that can be
reasonably expected to be available on target machines.  I think that
nowadays you can safely expect at least 16MB to be available.

> Note that I am already using the -s and -O3 switches.

The -s switch has no effect on the run-time memory footprint, only on
the size of the .exe file on disk.  The -O3 switch actually enlarges
the excutables in many cases.