Re: Hello World 217Kb ?

[Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>]

> stephane richard wrote:
> 
>> With Ada.Text_IO;
>> procedure Hello is
>> begin
>>     Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Hello World. Welcome to GNAT");
>> end;
>>
>> a whopping 217Kb (without debug information)...am I doing something 
>> wrong, or is this the actual size of a basic exe file produced by Ada?
>>
>> Compiled with GNAT 3.15p

Omigosh.  That's 0.02 cents worth of disk space (one fiftieth of a cent) 
at current retail rates!  But the real killer is backups.  If you back 
up your programs to CD's every week,  you'll spend another penny per 
year for the CD space needed for backing that baby up.  This could get 
expensive.

Al