From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Big executable program size
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:25:22 -0500
Date: 2005-09-19T13:25:22-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <csSdnbxHds0Pn7LeRVn-hg@comcast.com> (raw)
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>> I downloaded gnat-gpl-2005-pentium-mingw32msv-bin.exe for win98
>> and compiled hello.adb
>> This hello.exe size is 1520kb. why?
>The simple answer is that your program has statically linked in a lot of
>...
>A longer answer points out that much of the excess is relatively fixed,
>and is not a significant proportion of a "real" program, where it's also
>more likely to be needed.
Also, different Ada compilers generate substantially different exe sizes,
presumably depending on how their designers view the cost of
disk/RAM/bandwidth vs the cost of trimming out the fat.
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2005-09-19 1:47 Big executable program size fracttcarf
2005-09-19 2:16 ` John B. Matthews
2005-09-19 15:42 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-19 18:25 ` tmoran [this message]
2005-09-19 17:44 ` Martin Krischik
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