Hello, My binary is some 13 times larger than the object files combined. Am I doing something wrong or is there a way to reduce the binary size? GCC version is 4.8.1. When compiled with -O2 -flto, the object file sizes are: 13216 Jul 9 14:57 RR-jump.o 38864 Jul 9 14:57 RR.o 238496 Jul 9 14:57 main.o 41560 Jul 9 14:57 random.o Linked with gcc -L/usr/lib64/atlas -O2 -flto -msse4 main.o random.o RR.o RR-jump.o -lgsl -lcblas -latlas -lstdc++ -o main the binary size is 4712993 Jul 9 14:57 main When compiled with -O3 -flto, the object files size are: 13440 Jul 9 13:31 RR-jump.o 39216 Jul 9 13:31 RR.o 246752 Jul 9 13:31 main.o 41560 Jul 9 13:31 random.o Linked with gcc -L/usr/lib64/atlas -O3 -flto -msse4 main.o random.o RR.o RR-jump.o -lgsl -lcblas -latlas -lstdc++ -o main the binary size is 4718392 Jul 9 13:31 main