Hi Eljay, What's more important for me is the size on disk. I want a small file that can be easy to download. I have already tried the "strip" command, and the relative figures I gave were after stripping the binaries. -Gaurav On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:22:02 -0600, Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Guarav, > > Did you do the "strip" command on the output binary? > > strip myexecutable > > That might cut out 10%. > > When you are talking about the "bloat", are you speaking about the file, or > of the memory footprint of the program when running? > > If you are speaking of the file, that does not necessarily correspond to > "bloat" in memory. The Linux executable file may be 100 KB, and the memory > footprint (code + data) may be 200 KB. The Windows executable file may be > 50 KB and the memory footprint (code + data) may be 10 MB. > > I'm just trying to understand what you consider "bloat". Is it important > that the file be small, or that the running memory footprint be small? > > --Eljay > >
