Re: BDS2006 exe sizes

Ian wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:28:44 GMT, Uffe Kousgaard wrote:
Did you just decide to drop BDS2006 just because one file is
slightly bigger than the other?

Slightly? I don't consider 25,600 bytes a slight increase. In D7, a simple console application is only 16,384 bytes.

You need to agree on exactly what code you're using. The code Dodgy showed (duplicated below) is Delphi's default console-mode program. Note that it includes the SysUtils unit, which drags in a lot of exception-related code. Ian, the size you just cited suggests you didn't include SysUtils in your code. That would account for the great difference in size.

In Delphi 2005, a console-mode program with SysUtils is about 40 KB. Without SysUtils, it's about 13.5 KB.

program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
SysUtils;

begin
writeln('Hello World');
end.

I wonder how you see this program as a test of a compiler's efficiency. The compiler only processes one line of code. (And I suspect the code generated by the compiler for that line hasn't changed by more than a few bytes over the past decade.)

--
Rob
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