[sdcc-devel] sdcc code size history

[Philipp K. K. <pk...@sp...>]

Dear sdcc developers and users,

in case you are interested in how sdcc has improved or worsened in terms
of code size: I have run different sdcc versions on a benchmark
(http://colecovision.eu/stuff/testbench.tar.gz, consisting mostly of
code, for which sdcc historically did not perform very well), and
compiled the result into a big graph (and some smaller graphs that focus
on families of related ports).

Some explanations:
Compiler options used: port, --opt-code-size.
For the "1M" lines, the option --max-allocs-per-node 1000000 was added
Gaps in lines: I was unable to compile the sdcc version, or the sdcc
port was unable to compile the benchmark, or the port did not yet exist.

Philipp