Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

On 2006-02-23, Ian <ian610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

How does a program without any application code measure a compilers
efficiency? The runtime that is attached could be compiled with a 100%
different compiler.
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