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From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: huge executable??
Date: 2000/05/14
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> 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.