Size of binaries
I realise that there were excellent reasons for compiling debian 3.0
for ia64 with gcc 2.96, but I'm looking forward to woody+1 when we get
to use a more recent compiler:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 14646395 May 3 12:00 gcc/stage1/cc1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 10535738 May 3 13:13 gcc/stage2/cc1
The first binary is gcc-3.1 compiled with gcc-2.96. The second is
gcc-3.1 compiled with gcc-3.1. A whopping 28% reduction in size.
And it looks even better if you strip them (most debian binaries are
delivered stripped):
-rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 9778176 May 3 15:32 stage1.cc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 5274160 May 3 15:32 stage2.cc
An even more impressive 46% reduction in size. I have no idea how
typical this is and I haven't attempted to quantify runtime performance
yet -- it's still bootstrapping itself. But I thought these results were
sufficiently interesting to comment on.
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