454 kb Hello world program!!

[haskell]

Yeah lol... So I think I busted my compiler(fixed it by getting a fresh of GCC).

It compiled my mid-sized app to 30 kb, but a hello world program to 454 kb:shock: .

I think it was iostream and the STL that caused it for me.

No, I don't want help, I was just wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar lol. It is pretty funny

[[Gandalf]]

Yep. I've noticed a significant change in file size mostly based on what compiler you're using. For example, with GCC a terminal based hello world program might be a few hundred KB, but using VC++ the equivalent program is 5 KB and a simple GUI program is 15 KB. Never really done much exploring into it, seeing as how I have no shortage of storage space.

[haskell]

Interesting. I'm looking at OpenWatcom as a replacement for GCC, just because of this retarded overhead that seems to be common. I got 40 kb for a helloworld a couple days ago.

I can't wait to get my Intel C++ compiler lol -.-.

[[Gandalf]]

Note that I still prefer to use GCC over Microsoft's compiler for non-GUI programs.

What harm are a few extra KB going to cause?

[haskell]

I prefer using a visual resource editor and GCC for GUI apps, but each to his own I suppose. Its just as easy, if not easier... If you want I can show some examples of resources in apps using GCC?

And it just bugs me. I am still a low-level programmer at heart... I used to program full scale apps in MASM32 and FASM(Two assembly dialects), and program highly optimized C code in LCC. So, any extra memory usage or performance loss that I don't deem proper, I get pretty picky lol...

So yeah... That few KB eats at me... Annoys me... It burns! GET IT OFF!!!!!

[bugzpodder]

i built a 150-ish C++ program with STL headers... this shockingly was over 20MB with g++ 4...

[md]

I have a ~2400 line app; it compiles to 812K for the client, 792K for the server and oddly 812K for both combined.

If anyone wants to see the size of the relevant msvc++ executables the code is at svn://svn.nxor.org/vnet/

[neufelni]

For me, Hello World compiles to 7.8Kb using gcc.

[wtd]

The question I would ask is whether or not you know how the STL works.

[bugzpodder]

yes, its a template library, so it essentially is a template, ie put your code in theirs. But 20MB by god is a large app

[Mazer]

Can you guys give me some tips? I must be going about this the wrong way because I'm putting "using namespace std;" in all of my source files and g++ won't give me more than 86KB.

[Clayton]

Has anyone recently tried to download MinGW? I've been trying to download it to my laptop, but it continually stops halfway through with the installation/downolad and it's getting very annoying.

[wtd]

bugzpodder wrote:

yes, its a template library, so it essentially is a template, ie put your code in theirs. But 20MB by god is a large app

Every time you instantiate a template with a different set of values or types, new code gets generated.

Are you telling the compiler to optimize?

[bugzpodder]

no, I dont use the optimize option

[wtd]

Perhaps you could post the offending source code.