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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Size of linked program increasing with new version of GNAT. Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:48:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1419604367.2226.5.camel@obry.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b3884a634d8f846e0712b4e3a92507a"; logging-data="3883"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/pKohYOUf/mo9su9y+qAYj" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <1419604367.2226.5.camel@obry.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gla4b6CUPeKKgd8csRGm4GBdUMk= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24236 Date: 2014-12-26T16:48:28+01:00 List-Id: Le 26/12/2014 15:32, Pascal Obry a écrit : > Le jeudi 25 décembre 2014 à 09:44 -0800, Tony a écrit : >> > Why? I would expect things to improve with newer versions instead of becoming worse. > Nothing is becoming worse you are just looking at different things. Maybe the OP is thinking that bigger size => more code => worse code. Of course, this is a very naive view. Things are MUCH more complicated... (for one thing: more code may mean faster code, think of loop unrolling for example). -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr