From:	Andy Eskilsson <x-aes AT telelogic DOT se>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Size of executable in memory?
Date:	21 Mar 1997 17:02:07 +0100
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How memory much does the executable take?? Uh fuzzy question :-)

When making an application (python) statically, the size of the
executable is about 1 megabyte, but when stripping it the size shrinks
to 499k.

The question is now, how much extra space in memory does a 1-meg
'unstripped' executable take, compared to the same executable,
stripped to 499k?

Exactly what is it strip removes (well I don't have -g enabled and -O2
as optimization, so it shouldn't be debug-info..) and (probably the
real question is:) does this take extra memory?

If it isn't used soo much, it might not matter if it can be swapped
out, but life isn't always so simple or?

Some background:

I am messing around with DLM and python, managed to compile it, and
get it up running, but the binary is 606k, and I also need to load
DLMS (object-code?) in the size of 147+300k.. well this sums up to a
megabyte.. Can't strip it, and I wonder if it is worth these 500k's
having dynamic loading?

	/Andy

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