On Jan 20, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Hendrik Boom hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:45:16PM -0500, Bradley Lucier wrote:
On 01/19/2015 05:04 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:28:19 +0900, Ryuho Yokoyama wrote:
This time the size of the "w.exe" is 136KB. It's very small.
How can this possibly be considered "small" for such a trivial task, let along *very* small?
That's three times the entire RAM of the first machine I ran a HelloWorld program on!
I really wonder what is filling up all those K!
On Ubuntu 14.10, with all updates:
firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> cat hello.scm (display "Hello World!\n") firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> gsc -exe hello firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> ll hello -rwxrwxr-x 1 lucier lucier 10536 Jan 19 21:44 hello*
That's much smaller than the 136KB mentioned in the post I was replying to.
" This time the size of the "w.exe" is 136KB. It's very small.
Good job.
Now I really wonder what was going on in the 136KB, or whether 136KB was a typo.
-- hendrik
It is probably the ws2_32 library that is statically linked. But frankly on modern machines the difference in space between 5 MB (static link) and 5 KB (shared libs) doesn’t really matter very much. I almost always favour a static link because it avoids the headache of setting up the shared lib path, version compatibility, etc. Moreover, it is probably marginally faster to load the executable code from a single file.
Marc