Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:5034 From: Erik Max Francis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Stupid Questions Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 23:30:20 -0700 Organization: Alcyone Systems Lines: 31 Message-ID: <31C2587C.3FB100C1@alcyone.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.alcyone.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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 $20 > shareware... This is a common complaint, but I really don't see the importance. It goes something like this. "I wrote a 'Hello world' program and it's way too big! DJGPP sucks!" Well, who cares? Are you planning on writing nothing but tiny, miniscule programs? If you are, then maybe you shouldn't be using DJGPP (then again, maybe you shouldn't be programming). It's the big projects that you should be concerned about, and in that circumstance your concerns are unwarranted. DJGPP has very satisfactory sizes for large programs. For small programs, the size of the required libraries and startup code is a "fixed cost" that must be there, but when your program is really large, it dwarfs in comparison to the code that actually does what you're programming for. -- Erik Max Francis &tSftDotIotE && http://www.alcyone.com/max && max AT alcyone DOT com San Jose, California, U.S.A. && 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W && the 4th R is respect H.3`S,3,P,3$S,#$Q,C`Q,3,P,3$S,#$Q,3`Q,3,P,C$Q,#(Q.#`-"C`- && 1love && folasade Omnia quia sunt, lumina sunt. && Dominion, GIGO, GOOGOL, Omega, Psi, Strategem "Out from his breast/his soul went to seek/the doom of the just." -- _Beowulf_