Compiler: Size of generated executable file

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Chris (invalid at invalid.invalid)'s article
> "Nick Sabalausky":
> > "Ph":
> >> Why a generated file is so huge? [...]
> > That's not even a third of a megabyte, why does this keep getting brought
> > up as an issue by so many people?
> Execution speed perhaps, since the time elapsed is proportional to the
> number of processor instruction executed.

Right, but not all of the code is instructions that are executed.  Some of it's
static data that's never used.  Some is instructions that are never executed and
should be thrown out by the linker.