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Subject: Re: Size of linked program increasing with new version of GNAT.
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On 2014-12-30 00:56, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> But still, who cares? Im my experience with a variety of Ada compilers,
> there's no correlation between the minimum size of a program and the size of 
> real programs. 


Indeed. For databases, the equivalent test is

'select count('a') from some_table;'

It is not very useful as a measurement either,
some dbs actually traverse the table,
and some has a cached counter.

But what you really want is good performance
(whatever that is) for real applications,
not a constructed example that has little or no relevance.


--
Björn