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From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Stupid Questions
Date:	Fri, 14 Jun 1996 23:30:20 -0700
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Nissim Chudnoff wrote:

> About the big .EXE's I wrote a JLib thing to move a sprite around a
> screen, and do colission detection with 4 other non-moving sprites, and it
> was 100K. But I'm not complainin, since I'm too cheap to register $20
> shareware...

This is a common complaint, but I really don't see the importance.

It goes something like this.  "I wrote a 'Hello world' program and it's way
too big!  DJGPP sucks!"

Well, who cares?  Are you planning on writing nothing but tiny, miniscule
programs?  If you are, then maybe you shouldn't be using DJGPP (then again,
maybe you shouldn't be programming).

It's the big projects that you should be concerned about, and in that
circumstance your concerns are unwarranted.  DJGPP has very satisfactory sizes
for large programs.

For small programs, the size of the required libraries and startup code is a
"fixed cost" that must be there, but when your program is really large, it
dwarfs in comparison to the code that actually does what you're programming
for.

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