Executable size

[Gregor Richards]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Frank Benoit wrote:
>> Robert Fraser Wrote:
>>> Is this compiled all-at-once or with each object compiled separately?
>>
>> all-at-once.
>> Would you expect it, to be a big difference?
> 
> In the other direction. Gregor mentioned that if it's compiled 
> separately a bunch of redundant type information is included. He cited 
> some library (the old DWT maybe... too lazy to look up the post) that 
> ballooned from ~5MB to ~17MB when each file was compile separately.

If you compile them separately, the /library/ will be larger, but 
resultant /binaries/ will be smaller.

  - Gregor Richards