Re: Hello World 217Kb ?

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

stephane richard wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I never noticed this before, never bothered to :-).  But today it hit me
> that the following program produces a rather huge exe size.
> 
> 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?

The problem is that Ada.Text_IO is pretty large and unless you use "gnat
elim" to optimize package use you get it all.

> Compiled with GNAT 3.15p

Maybe you shoul tried the "-shared" option. That will link the Ada runtime
as DLL. 

And maybe you should try:

With Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Hello is
  begin
    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Hello World. Welcome to GNAT");
    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Goodby World. See you later");
end;

Double functionality (hello and goodby) for just a few bytes more! What a
super bargain!! ;-)

Well, this little joke should show you that the size of "Hello World" does
not say anything about how a Language scales up in larger projects. i.E.
double functionality does not mean double size.

With Regards

Martin
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