From: varobert AT colba DOT net
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 22:57:10 -0400
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Hello World and File size
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At 12:51 AM 7/9/99 GMT, you wrote:
>is the object code by djgpp has a minimal size of 100k?
>
No. You can try compiling with the -s to strip the symbols out of your
program (so no debugging). This cuts the program size usually by 2.
But DJGPP makes rather large objects, but I think this is due to the fact
that it's a protected mode compiler and has to manage the program you make
as such.

>and if you use packer would the program run at the same speed?
Yes. It'll just take a bit longer to load the executable; it will use just
as much memory and will run just as fast as the original. Think of it as a
self-extracting program.

- GodOfWar