Re: huge executable??

[DELCOURT J�r�me <sikander@club-internet.fr>]

tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> 
> > why is the .EXE produced by Ada so much bigger?
>   It's not Ada, it's the particular compiler's run-time for the
> particular OS.  Your Hello program compiled to 67K with a different
> compiler.  Dropping the "with ada.text_io" and raising an unhandled
> "hello_world:exception" instead, that went down to 37K.  Looking at
> some old DOS .com programs in Ada, I find a 100 line one that
> HTML-izes a text file and compiles to 19K.  The same program,
> compiled to run under 32 bit Windows, is now 73K.
>   The more important question is, is size a problem with real
> programs that do something substantial.

I think that a reduced executable size is important, since that
allows a better use of the CPU cache memory, so that could improve
the speed of the program.

Concerning that problem, I suspect that, with GNAT, there is not
a good elimination of the unused code.

Sincerely, Jerome Delcourt