Size of gcj binaries

Anthony Green green@cygnus.com
Sun Apr 16 08:16:00 GMT 2000


Bryce wrote:
> I've just noticed that recent versions of the compiler have reduced the
> size of a Java "hello world" binary by more than 50%:

Interesting.  But what about the size of optimized binaries?  Random
stuff happens at -O0, so binary sizes aren't meaningful.  I, for one,
have added code guaranteed to _increase_ the size of unoptimized
binaries (which is why I'm surprised they're smaller).

AG

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Anthony Green                                                        Red Hat
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