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Footprints in the Butter: Part II

By Matthew Wilson, September 01, 2005

In his previous installment, Matthew focused on code bloat in source code. This month, he looks at object code size.

September, 2005: Footprints in the Butter: Part II

Table 10: Scenario G. Binary sizes of recls 1.6.2 (stlsoft::simple_string throughout; manual pattern validation; enhanced InetSTL findfile_sequence).

Compiler lib (MT) C Test Program (MT) C++ Test Program (MT)
Borland 395,776 126,976 78.0% 245,248 73.1%
Digital Mars 385,536 99,356 96.4% 119,836 91.7%
Intel 404,358 71,680 96.2% 86,016 91.3%
Visual C++ (6) 220,844 65,536 97.9% 74,752 89.8%
Visual C++ (7.1) 1,672,984 60,416 97.6% 70,656 91.7%
Average 615,900 84,793 89.8% 119,302 81.8%
Average (no Borland) 670,931 74,247 96.8% 87,815 91.2%



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