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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Sizes of executables from Unix compilers
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Date: 6 Jun 90 23:06:00 GMT
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In article <1700@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) gives the sizes of some
>"hello world" programs:
>>C   (HP835)     34816
>>Ada (HP835)     86016
>>
>>C   (Sun-3)     32768
>>Ada1(Sun-3)     57344
>>Ada2(Sun-3)    106496
>>Ada3(Sun-3)    139264
>
>I don't think this is a language issue, but one of operating system.

Perhaps. Let me add:

assembler(IBM-PC)    22
C(IBM-PC)         3-8000 depending

Does anybody recall how many (decimal digits, not bytes) it would be
on an IBM 1620 -  my guess would be 23 or 24 decimal digits (5 bits
per decimal digit). (This would, of course be machine language :-), 
input at the console typewriter.) Anybody out there still remember
the codes? 

Doug McDonald