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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: How suitable is gcc-2.2.2 for 386bsd?
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References: <1992Oct28.135008.29265@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Oct28.183940.5859@nrao.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 04:37:23 GMT
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In article <1992Oct28.183940.5859@nrao.edu>, cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes:
|> In article 29265@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg, eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
|> >Linus Torvalds (torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
|> >: There should probably be no other major problems (although gcc-2.2.2 is
|> >: a lot bigger than 1.39, so if you are tight on memory, 1.39 is much
|> >: faster).
|> >:
|> >
|> >gcc-2.2.2 is bigger than gcc-1.39 & g++, being about 6 Megabytes binary.
|> >gcc&g++ 1.39 occupy about 2 megabytes(?).
|>
|> Linus is talking about the size of the executables while Othman appears
|> to be talking about the disk space required.
|>
|> A quick check using the size command on a SPARCstation (so results might
|> differ somewhat under 386BSD) shows that the C compiler (cc1) has increased
|> slightly in size from 1.4 to 2.2.2 (about .8Mbytes to about 1Mbyte). The
|> C++ compiler has increased rather more substantially (1.1Mbytes to 1.5Mbytes)
|> and the preprocessor has actually shrunk (about 173 kbytes to 100 kbytes).
|> I suspect that version 2.2.2 may consume substantially more dynamically
|> allocated memory that 1.4 but I haven't checked this.
Well, the sources have changed; one expects size changes. I'd be interested
in what the size differences for code files that *haven't* changed is. For
instance, what are the 1.39 and 2.2.2 sized for ash, bash, tar, ls, ps, etc.?
I think a larger compiler would be worth it if it produced smaller binaries
for non-compiler executables.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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