Compiler: Size of generated executable file

Don nospam at nospam.com
Tue Jan 12 06:43:13 PST 2010


Walter Bright wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> Walter Bright, el 10 de enero a las 13:06 me escribiste:
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> I simply can't get used to it, and probably never will for anyone who
>>>> used to code in low-level languages, since they know how much
>>>> a program size can really be.
>>>
>>> I downloaded a program from cpuid.com to tell me what processor I'm
>>> running. The executable file size is 1.8 Mb.
>>
>> Well, if it's in the internet I'm sure is good!
>>
>> Come on, other people making crap doesn't mean making more crap is
>> justified :)
>>
> 
> It's actually a nice program. My point was that the era of tiny 
> executables has long since passed.

I once had a customer make a request for a very small DOS utility 
program, and specifically said that they didn't have much disk space 
left on their computer, could I please make sure the executable wasn't 
too big?

I wrote it in asm. It was 15 bytes. <g>



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