Re: [Dev-C++] Executable size is huge

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This problem isn't on Linux, my .exes are around 12kb are so for a simple program that does multiplication.

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~~Scott Simontis~~
Programmer
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Jack Chen wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone think the developers of Dev-C++ will change it? It's very
> > scary.
> 
> This isn't really unique to Mingw32. In fact, you will hear a lot of C
> fans argue that one of the reasons they don't like C++ is because the
> Standard C++ library is so bloated, and does produce such large binaries.
> 
> Now the GCC compiler is not known for being the most efficient compiler in
> the world, or for doing a really good job of optimizing code, and the
> problem is exagerated in GCC over some other compilers. But the problem
> does exist in other compilers as well.
> 
> But I think what you need to ask is does it matter? GCC is free, and it
> does optimize well enough for all but the most demanding tasks. The C++
> Standard Library might be bloated, but is a 400K executable really a
> problem when the average computer today has 256Mb of RAM?
> 
> 
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