[gambit-list] How can built a small as 5 Kbytes "Hello World" program ?
Bradley Lucier
lucier at math.purdue.edu
Mon Jan 19 22:20:04 EST 2015
On 01/19/2015 09:45 PM, 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*
> firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> ./hello
> Hello World!
> firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> gsc -v
> \v4.7.3 20141017031152 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu "./configure
> '--enable-single-host' '--enable-shared'
> '--enable-multiple-versions' '--enable-char-size=1'"
>
>
> Brad
I forgot:
firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> strip hello
firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> ll hello
-rwxrwxr-x 1 lucier lucier 7352 Jan 19 22:18 hello*
firefly:~/programs/gambit/norvig-spell/gambit> ./hello
Hello World!
Brad
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