After removing -g, Borland wins, but by how much differs. For the larger program executable, it is 93k and 94k. For the smaller program executable, it is 85k and 89k. Thanks. :-) The values for -fno-implicit-templates -DNO_IMPLICIT_TEMPLATES are 248k -> 102k for the larger program executable and 248k -> 102k for the smaller program executable, depending on -Wl,--gc-sections. Thanks again. :-) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/template-instantiation-tp29948224p29948754.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.