Re: Size of binaries
>>>>> On Fri, 3 May 2002 22:48:08 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:
Matthew> -rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 9778176 May 3 15:32 stage1.cc
Matthew> -rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 5274160 May 3 15:32 stage2.cc
Matthew> An even more impressive 46% reduction in size. I have no
Matthew> idea how typical this is and I haven't attempted to
Matthew> quantify runtime performance yet -- it's still
Matthew> bootstrapping itself. But I thought these results were
Matthew> sufficiently interesting to comment on.
Isn't this difference due to the stage1 compiler being compiled
without -O2? gcc/ia64 generates horribly inefficient code without at
least -O.
--david
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