From: "DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com>
Subject: Re: Suitability for small Windows projects
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 02:53:32 GMT
Date: 2000-09-28T02:53:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MoyA5.121018$Ur3.1500405@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8qrs0i$kq2@newshost.fujitsu.com.au
> It's not really the hard disk space I'm worried about,
> Producing "reasonably" small standalone executables has two benefits for
me:
> 1. Programs can be easily downloaded from the net.
> 2. The smaller the executable size the less RAM resources it uses (in
> general).
>
> The "100 KB Hello World" I beleive is good.
> It's the "1.4 MB Hello World" program in Visual Basic with a 1.36 MB
runtime
> file that I'm trying to avoid.
>
The issue of the size of executables has been beat to death on this
newsgroup.
My experience is you take a fairly big initial hit on size for the run-time
library, but
the incremental size isn't any worse than other languages (sometimes
better).
SteveD
> Thanks again,
>
> Ray Smith
>
>
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-26 22:38 Suitability for small Windows projects Ray Smith
2000-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-09-26 0:00 ` Gerhard Haering
2000-09-27 4:20 ` Ray Smith
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-10-19 0:00 ` r_c_chapman
2000-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Peter Amey
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-23 0:00 ` Peter Amey
2000-10-05 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-05 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-09-28 2:53 ` DuckE [this message]
2000-09-27 0:21 ` tmoran
2000-09-27 5:30 ` tmoran
2000-09-27 0:32 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2000-09-27 6:21 Alexey V. Litvinov
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