From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Hello World and File size
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:40:37 -0600
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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
>


UPX is the newer version of DJP.  It works better and supports more formats.

    -={C}=-