Compiler: Size of generated executable file
retard
re at tard.com.invalid
Thu Jan 14 06:19:41 PST 2010
To conclude this discussion, it seems that executable size could be
reduced dramatically. Unfortunately the compiler fails to use the
opportunity in almost all cases.
A typical program would be 50% to 99.999% smaller if the libraries
(including stdlib) were dynamically linked in, compiler omitted gc when
it's not needed, and the extra type info would be eliminated - completely
when no runtime reflection is used at all. Walter doesn't see this as a
large problem, at least not worth fixing now so we got to get used to
executables 100x larger than they need to be. Kthxbai
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