22 Aug
2001
22 Aug
'01
1:37 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Iggy Drougge once stated:
Richard Erlacher skrev:
I just compiled the C hello world program under Linux 2.2.12 with
egcs-2.91.66 and got the following:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 spc spc 932131 Aug 22 21:32 hello
Okay, granted, I compiled it statically (if I compiled normally, it would
be 11,811 bytes in size 8-) but still, nearly a megabyte there!
-spc (Again, it depends upon how well the programmer uses the tools
provided ... )
Even today's compilers demand several hundred
Kbytes for a simple
"hello-world" program on one of today's machines, while it took well fewer
than 256 bytes of executable code to print a short text string on a Z-80 or
6502.
Tell me you're just making that up. Prove it.