From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be3749d096f8436b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-27 19:53:33 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: "DuckE" From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <8qr809$cjj@newshost.fujitsu.com.au> <8qrs0i$kq2@newshost.fujitsu.com.au> Subject: Re: Suitability for small Windows projects X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 02:53:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.221.63 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 970109612 24.6.221.63 (Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:53:32 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:53:32 PDT Organization: @Home Network Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:834 Date: 2000-09-28T02:53:32+00:00 List-Id: > 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 > >