Re: BDS2006 exe sizes


"Dunny" <paul.dunn4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Except H.W. doesn't really illustrate "bloat". An H.W. program and and
H.W.W.T.F.D.Y.M. program are going to be fairly close in size. IOW in some
systems there may be a significant initial overhead but the cost of
additions is relatively small. In other systems the opposite may be true.

H.W. is not a test and thinking it is, is simply wrong.

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.

Not necessarily true. While H.W. in D3 is 5KB smaller, the smallest program
I could generate in D3 was 36KB. The smallest in D5 was 16KB.



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