[Liberty-eiffel] Fwd: Sizes of current executables...

[Paolo Redaelli]

A factor is that we changed STRINGs. Even if compiler only uses STRING and not ABSTRACT_STRING, ROPE, FIXED_STRING they could induce the compiler to leave some late-binding even if they "should" be optimized away during germ generation.


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Oggetto:	[Liberty-eiffel] Sizes of current executables...
Data:	Sat, 6 Sep 2014 09:58:50 +0200 (CEST)
Mittente:	Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH <address@hidden>
Rispondi-a:	Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH <address@hidden>
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Hi,

 

as to the much larger sizes of the current executables (true on Linux and Windows) I have done some digging and comparing with SE.

 

- I re-generated SE's germ, it produced only 65 C-files, totalling some 15.4 Mb. (not counting the header files here)

- The curernt LE germ contains 131 C-files, totalling some 39.2 Mb. (also not considering header files)

 

Assuming that both germs were generated with '-boost -no_gc' and hence start from equal grounds, what on earth has happened to the language in between the latest SE distribution and the current Liberty germ?  The code generating strategy has not changed, or has it?

 

This sizeable difference cannot be explained away with differences in the back-end compiler, as we're talking about C-files generated by the Eiffel system here....

 

Cheers

Hans