From: "Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Hello World and File size
Date: 12 Jun 1999 13:29:57 GMT
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Christopher Nelson <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net> wrote in article
<01beb1c9$eb872cc0$LocalHost AT thendren>...
> 
> 
> >I've just tried it for the first time and immediately come up with the
> >same question. C and C++ "hello" programs after compiling with djgpp
have
> >sizes 105 K and 287 K correspondingly. On the other hand when compiled
> >with MS Visual C++ compiler their sizes are 28 k and 36 K.
> >
> >Are you sure that this big difference really goes away for large
real-life
> >programs?

DJP also compresses DJGPP binaries quite well - see Simtelnet


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