compiled code file size

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/20/13 3:49 PM, Duke Normandin wrote:
> On Friday, 20-Sep-13 3:04 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:45:48 +0200
>> "Temtaime" <temtaime at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Software MUST
>>> running almost ANYWHERE and consumes minimal resources.
>>>
>>> For example i hate 3dsmax developers when on my game's map it
>>> uses several GB of ram amd freezes sometimes, when Blender uses
>>> only 500 MB and runs fast. The only reason for me for use 3dsmax
>>> is more friendly contoling. But this is another story...
>>>
>>> Some users which doesn't have ""modern"" PC will hate your app
>>> too i think.
>>> One should optimize ALL things which he can to optimize.
>>>
>>
>> I agree with what you're saying here, but the problem is we're looking
>> at a difference of only a few hundred k.
>>
>> Heck, my primary PC was a 32-bit single-core right up until last year
>> (and I still use it as a secondary system), and I didn't care one bit if
>> a hello world was 1k or 1MB.
>>
>> How many real world programs are as trivial as a hello world? A few
>> maybe, but not many. Certainly not enough to actually add up to
>> anything significant, unless maybe you happen to be running on a 286 or
>> such.
>>
>> If we were talking about real-world D programs taking tens/hundreds of
>> MB more than they should, then that would be a problem. But they
>> don't. We're just talking about a few hundred k for an *entire* program.
>>
>
> I should have been a bit more clear!! It's the _relative_ size
> difference that bothers me!! One is almost 26 times larger than the
> other. If I'm to expect that same variance in a large to huge project,
> that I think that I'd me in a world of bullshine!!

The point here is that the factor does not preserve as sizes go. A 4 
year-old is twice as old as a 2-year-old, but a 34-year-old is not twice 
as old as a 32-year-old.

Andrei