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From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Gnat Executable Size
Date: 1998/10/14
Date: 1998-10-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <700rfc$6h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3621E42C.2920@Entenhausen.net

In article <3621E42C.2920@Entenhausen.net>,
  Donald.Duck@Entenhausen.net wrote:
> As far as I understand, the comparison was _not_ between Ada and M2, but
> between GNAT and any other compiler. What is true is, that the GNAT code
> is bigger than code from other (even other Ada) compilers. For your
> comparison you have to add the size of the EMX runtime also.

First, the EMX runtime is relevant only to the OS/2 version among the
officially supported versions of GNAT, so that seems a bit of an odd
thing to mention.

Second, we occasionally get notes of this kind, and in 100% of cases, they
have turned out to be based on apples-vs-oranges comparisons. The differences
come from many bogus sources:

  unoptimized vs optimized code
  debugging information not stripped
  non-comparable programs
  statically vs dynamically linked libraries
  etc.

After a while it is hardly worth following up each case!

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-10-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

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
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     ` geertbosch
1998-10-14  0:00     ` dewar [this message]
1998-10-15  0:00       ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16  0:00       ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
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         ` dennison
1998-10-16  0:00           ` dewar
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
1998-10-19  0:00                       ` dewar
1998-10-23  0:00                         ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25  0:00                           ` dewar
1998-10-17  0:00             ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18  0:00               ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-18  0:00               ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19  0:00                 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20  0:00                   ` dennison
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
1998-10-16  0:00         ` dewar
1998-10-17  0:00         ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17  0:00           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-12  0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size dennison
1998-10-12  0:00   ` Dave Wood
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