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From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/29
Date: 1999-09-29T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37F22A06.176CA9F6@icn.siemens.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7srnb9$2u3$1@nnrp1.deja.com



Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <37F0D03C.DE4807D4@icn.siemens.de>,
>   Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> wrote:
> > What switches are
> > needed to generate the smallest possible code ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alfred
> 
> Well obviously you strip a module to reduce debug symbol size,
> and you go to dynamic linking of the GNAT library, but really
> the size of small programs is a rather insignificant issue
> these days when 100K of disk space costs 0.1 cents.


Simply replace "Disk" by "Ram". Or lets think about a program of 1.5 MB,
how transfer it on floppy ?

> The size of large programs is a concern, but measuring the
> size of hello world programs has nothing at all to do with
> the size of real programs, since what you are really
> concentrating on here is the default size of the minimal
> run-time library.


As mentioned in my original article, I did the comparison not only with
"Hello world" (you've read it) ?




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-29  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-27  0:00 Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses the middleman
1999-09-27  0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-27  0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1999-09-27  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-27  0:00   ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28  0:00     ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28  0:00         ` bill
1999-09-27  0:00           ` Aidan Skinner
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-27  0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00     ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Simon Wright
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00         ` Pragma (was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.) Preben Randhol
1999-09-30  0:00           ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses p.obry
1999-09-28  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28  0:00           ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00     ` GNAT listing file default names (was: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00     ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-28  0:00       ` David Botton
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-09-29  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` tmoran
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Ehud Lamm
1999-09-30  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]                       ` <7t2e1l$lqt2@ftp.kvaerner.com>
     [not found]                         ` <37F91D6E.58685CFE@mitre.org>
     [not found]                           ` <7tf7uo$h2b$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
     [not found]                             ` <37FBA978.A86762F1@mitre.org>
1999-10-18  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19  0:00                                 ` Code size of Ada ? Robert I. Eachus
     [not found]                           ` <7tf7uo <37FBA978.A86762F1@mitre.org>
     [not found]                             ` <5OkO3.2$1e.659@typhoon.nyu.edu>
1999-10-19  0:00                               ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-30  0:00                 ` Gautier
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Gautier
1999-09-29  0:00               ` Ed Falis
1999-09-29  0:00                 ` Gautier
1999-09-29  0:00                 ` tmoran
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Alfred Hilscher [this message]
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00             ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Gautier
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00   ` the middleman
1999-09-28  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00     ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-28  0:00     ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-28  0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-29  0:00   ` the middleman
1999-09-29  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-28  0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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