Re: huge executable?? - worry no more

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Tom Hargraves wrote:
> In my rambling experience, currently Ada is as good as it gets for helping
> the engineer produce a quality product. Executable size is a 'lesser issue'
> for most Ada projects. If it is an issue, you can compile and link disabling
> all that nice Ada checking etc. and end up with a readable 'C/C++' program
> (with the same unpredictable behaviour of course!).
> 
Very good points! Other than for embedded computers where there are
limited resouces, people shouldn't get so worried over the size of the
"Hello World" executable. Ultimately, for any significant sized system,
you're going to pay the price anyway. A minimalist C-like runtime means
you are going to have to develop what isn't in the runtime as you begin
to need the features. A larger runtime means more facilities you won't
have to duplicate because someone else already built it for you, but you
sometimes drag along stuff you don't need. If the runtime is sharable,
it minimizes used space, but only for multiple images and you get other
problems along the way by sharing. It all comes down to engineering
tradeoffs. And these days, speed, memory and disk space is so plentiful
relative to the size of the runtime, why not spend time looking for
problems that aren't burried so far in the weeds?

MDC
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