Re: [Dev-C++] GCC 3.2 (MinGW 2.0) Compiled File Sizes

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Daniel K. O. wrote:
> g++ is not toooo bloated, I compiled some big (well... not toooo big, 
> but bigger than a hello world... 15~20K lines :P ) projetcts, and the 
> size (with -O2 switch, and no strip/upx) is usually less than 100 KB 
> bigger than the binaries compiled with VC++ (dunno what version). It 
> seems acceptable to me. :)

g++ "itself" is not bloated. I mean, it doesn't make bloated code, but 
the use of it's STL or something tends to make huge exes. Even if you 
make a really huge project, without iostream (just stdio.h and stuff), 
the result can still be small, however if you make even the smallest 
program, BUT you use iostream, then you get huge exe. This is really 
weird indeed, but that's what we have to live with.

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Greetings,
   Balázs