On January 25, 2002 08:15, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> These are all startup costs that are lost in the noise the longer the
> program runs.
Executable size is -not- just a startup cost. Larger executables will have a
bigger memory footprint and less cache locality. A KDE desktop on 64megs of
memory would be noticably more responsive if GCC generated executables the
same size as VC++, due to less swap thrashing alone.
-Ryan
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