Re: Linkers - making executables smaller

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
24 Jun 1998 00:08:11 -0400

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From: henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Jun 1998 00:08:11 -0400
Organization: SP Systems, Toronto, Canada
References: 98-06-103
Keywords: linker

Peter Hall <peterh@pernod.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I have a requirement to make executables smaller. I cannot use
>shared libraries...


If your only concern is the physical size of the final executable, and you
have control of "both ends" of the process (generation and execution), do
note that data compression is reasonably effective on executables,
especially if the compression algorithm can be tuned for the particular
machine.
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Henry Spencer henry@spsystems.net
(aka henry@zoo.toronto.edu)
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