Re: [Dev-C++] Executable Size

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Hello Marc!

Friday, November 15, 2002, 9:10:46 AM, you wrote:
MH> I have just completed writing a windows based app using Dec-C++ (4.9.6.8)
MH> and gcc (2.95.3-6) compiled using -O3 and got an executable size of 100,864
MH> bytes. I then took the same code (no changes) and compiled using VC++ 6 SP2
MH> release build and got and executable size of 69,632 bytes. Are there some
MH> switches and things I should know about that can further optimize the
MH> results?

Try  using the -O2 flag instead of -O3. I got better (smaller) results
with  it,  and  I  have  read  somewhere,  that O2 is better, and more
reliable than O3, and O1.

I have tried it with a small file:
source:         8091 bytes
normal compile: 4783 bytes
-O (-O1):       4042 bytes
-O2:            4202 bytes
-O3:            5606 bytes

Hope I could help.

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 Oroszi Balázs                     mailto:or...@vp...