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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,81cf52699486abe7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alfred Hilscher Subject: Re: Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses. Date: 1999/09/30 Message-ID: <37F343A5.A68B8321@icn.siemens.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 531085376 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37EED7B8.245C0054@yukyonline.co.yuky> <7smp30$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <7sp8m9$a6e$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37F0D03C.DE4807D4@icn.siemens.de> <7srnb9$2u3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37F22A06.176CA9F6@icn.siemens.de> <7stsfs$l05$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Siemens AG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > Simply replace "Disk" by "Ram". Or lets think about a program > > of 1.5 MB, how transfer it on floppy ? > > No one has mentioned programs that would not fit on a floppy. > Please do NOT assume that because one Hellow world program > was 10K and the other was 20K, that you have a factor of > 2 difference, no, more likely you have a 10K difference, > representing the basic overhead. So perhaps we are > talking about a 1.32 MB program rather than 1.33. This is absolutely wrong. OK, you don't like the "Hello world", so let me show an other example. I've wrote a simple WEB-server for remote control of production maschines. The code that GNAT produces was more than 800K, the same with Modula was about 70K (10% !), both on WinNT. Oh, sorry, I remember, you don't like comparison with other languages. Well, I compiled the same with ObjectAda 7.1 and the total amout of code (with static linking) was 200K. Therefore I think, that there must be a way to produce smaller EXE-files with GNAT, too. And _this_ was the question of my original posting. Ok, ok. I understand. I do not pay lots of $$$ for support, therefore I will not be told the neccessary compileroptions . But it does not matter, I prefer the Aonix tool anyway. > As I said earlier, the comparison figures are pretty useless > you cannot generalize from them in this way. Don't you think, it's a question of what was campared ? Yes, one single "Hello world" says nothing. But a few programs ranging from 4 lines up to 5000 should be a little representative. > > > The size of large programs is a concern, but measuring the > > > size of small programs has nothing at all to do with > > > the size of larger, 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) ? > > But you only did it with small programs ... and almost > certainly non-comparable programs at that ... NO. See above. Please tell me _your_ definition of "small programms".