Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

J French wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:31:02 -0600, Rob Kennedy <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ian wrote:
Can someone tell me what the size of a simple "hello world"
program's .exe file size is in BDS2006? I'm curious to see how much
different they are from D7.

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

It gives one an idea of 'compiled in' run time support
- probably the first test one does is a console mode 'Hullo World'
- then a MessageBox 'Hullo World'
- then a ShowMessage 'Hullo World'
- then a Form showing 'Hullo World'

Not a bad test of compiler (or rather linker) efficiency

Exactly. Why did none of the others who responded to this figure that one
out? The guy never asked for Hello World to be a good test of the compiler -
he wanted to know what amount of bloat he could expect from each delphi
product.

I'd have thought it was obvious that the greater the revision number of
Delphi, the greater the file size. D5 produces files that are as large as
I'm prepared to go. Any further up and not only do they get slower, they get
far, far bigger.

D.


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