Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:31:02 GMT, Rob Kennedy wrote:

Why is a "hello world" program a meaningful benchmark?

Good question, and I'm going to try to answer it the best way I can.

A "Hello World" program is usually the norm for testing out various
compilers for all types of programming languages, and for starting out
learning a new programming language. It probably dates back to the
1970s when K&R used it as an introductory program in their book "The C
Programming Language". A hello world program is one of the smallest
programs one can use to see how large of an executable the compiler
will produce from that source. As soon as I get my hands on a new
compiler, the first thing I do is test it out using a simple "Hello
World" (or just a bare-bone skeleton program) with disabled Debug info,
Range checks, etc. If the compiler produces a large executable from
such a simple program as those, then they aren't efficient enough in my
book.

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