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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: It's been a while...
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:45:46 -0500
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Luke A. Guest wrote in message ...
>Hi,
>
>I learned Ada at University around 1995 and I've been interested in
>getting back into it. Now, I have a simple "hello" app and it is huge.
>Now, I don't want to have a load of people telling me not to judge Ada
on
>the size, but I really want to know how to get the app size down. The
app
>is:
>
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 laguest  users      200492 2003-05-29 22:16 hello


Gee, that's tiny. On Windows, I get:

HELLO    EXE       217,875  05-30-03  2:39p hello.exe

after compiling with Gnat. You really ought to try another compiler (or
stop worrying). With Janus/Ada 3.1.2, I get:

HELLO    EXE        61,952  05-30-03  2:42p hello.exe

Much of that size is in the Microsoft libraries; the Ada generated part
is less than 40K. And, the same program on MS-DOS is around 18K in size.

(I used no optimization with either compiler, but I did use unused code
trimming on the Janus/Ada binder, as that is required with Windows
programs. And it matters a lot in this case.)

             Randy.