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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada vs. C
Date: 1996/08/16
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Date: 1996-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
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Anthony said

"Using GNAT under OS/2, the hello program compiles to
a 262,958 byte executable. When I strip the debug code,
the size goes down to 53,252 bytes. When I run the
LxLite utility program to compress the EXE file, the size
goes down to 31,364 bytes. This file size is certainly not
out of line with C/C++ compilers.
"

And if you link dynamically instead of staticaly, you can of course
reduce the executable size much further.