From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a30a877db63b60c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-10!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Al Christians Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Hello World 217Kb ? Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:01:05 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <10q8ci4jj1ijh71@corp.supernews.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6409 Date: 2004-11-22T23:01:05-08:00 List-Id: > 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