From: Lieven Marchand <mal@bewoner.dma.be>
Subject: Re: Gnat Executable Size
Date: 1998/10/11
Date: 1998-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6vtdfc$r50$2@xenon.inbe.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6volj0$250$1@uuneo.neosoft.com
rlove@antispam.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) writes:
> [snipped discussion of size of Hello world program]
> How small can GNAT get "Hello World"? What compiler options and pragmas
> would you use for this?
>
These kind of discussions seem to come up about every 3 months. I
never understood why the size of this particular program is of any
real importance. In some of the languages I really like like Modula-3
or Common Lisp such an executable could very well be a few
megabytes. So what? These kind of languages come with a large and
usefull standard environment that in the end saves you a lot of
trouble. This also means that the size of the executable grows very
modestly with increased functionality and complexity.
Unless you have special requirements like restricted space in an
embedded application or something that needs to start up instantly a
large number of times per second it doesn't seem a very usefull
question to ask.
--
Lieven Marchand <mal@bewoner.dma.be>
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand [this message]
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size geertbosch
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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