23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
1:21 p.m.
Chuck McManis skrev:
At 09:37 PM 8/22/01 -0400, Sean wrote:
> 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!
So what's your point? How much memory do you have
on this machine? What
fraction of main memory is 932,131 bytes? Given dynamic linking, what
fraction is 11,811 bytes? The PC tools live on big memory machines, there
is no motivation to make them small. On my 68HC11 cross compilation system
compiling hello.c gives me 210 bytes. If it gave me 11K bytes I'd throw it
out because the most I can work with is 64K and 11K is too much to spend on
printing a string.
I may be old-fashioned here, but I'm of the opinion that my expensive and
valuable memory should be available for my leisure, not wasted by lazy
programmers with lousy compilers. How much memory I may have is my business,
the programmer's business is to make sure that as little as possible is wasted
on applications when it could be used for data or other applications.
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