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From: sterten AT aol DOT com (Sterten)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: 18 Dec 2003 12:48:52 GMT
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Subject: Re: re:allocate memory
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>> 1.  it takes longer to compile such programs
>> 2.  the executable is very big.
>
>But both of these only apply if you compile such programs as C++.  In
>C, there's no noticeable speed degradation nor executable size issue,
>as long as you don't initialize the array.

thanks, I didn"t know that.
Indeed I initialized   
int array[big]={0};

replaced it with:
int array[big];
...
for(i=0;i<=big;i++)array[i]=0;

and it's down to 80K from 4M  !