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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSP 2.0 ("Smallest code ever?")
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Date: 1 Dec 88 12:14:51 GMT
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In article <3330@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> jedeline@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Jim Deline) writes:
>
>received my upgrade yesterday, and when I compiled a program
>I had written with version 1.11 it was 7K larger!! The original
>program compiled to 23K, and the compiled version with 2.0 
>compiled to 30K...this is hardly smaller.  Has anyone else

	Are you comparing the size of your built application, or are you
comparing the object size numbers as they appear in the project window?
Remember that the final application will have things in it like the
runtime libraries; depending on how many Pascal intrinsic routines you
use, more of the runtime stuff will be linked in, resulting in a bigger
program. Also, are you using overflow and range checking? That will also
increase the code size.

	If you're giving a comparison, give ALL the details.

		--Rich


Rich Siegel
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