Large code size?

[Sam Lantinga]

> > That's a whopping 4.5MB decrease in size just by using -fno-exceptions
> > It's still 25% larger than the equivalent VC++ code (which does have
> > exception handling enabled, BTW), but .5 MB of that is additional library
> > code that is a separate DLL on Windows, for a final count of only 17%
> > larger.

> What happens if you replace -O2 with -Os?  (optimize for space ... which
> in many cases does a fairly decent job of optimizing for speed as well)?
> You should get smaller code.

The size decrease is on the order of 5-10%, which isn't worth if it we
lose any significant speed.

	-Sam Lantinga				(slouken@devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
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