libstdc++, disable streams

Benjamin Kosnik bkoz@redhat.com
Wed Jun 5 01:25:00 GMT 2002


> It'll be nice to allow one to disable streams while using all other
> c++ library stuff - it can significantly decrease executable size.
> STLport does allow that.

I am unconvinced. I spent a lot of time tuning for (shared, not static)
size. Static binary size is another question altogether, and I think the
proper place for work on this is not in the library itself, but more
intelligence in the linker.

-benjamin



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