Re: Comparing Compilers

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
13 Dec 2004 02:02:27 -0500

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From: henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Dec 2004 02:02:27 -0500
Organization: SP Systems, Toronto, Canada
References: 04-11-015 04-11-033 04-11-050 04-11-117
Keywords: performance, practice
Posted-Date: 13 Dec 2004 02:02:27 EST

TOUATI Sid <touati@prism.uvsq.fr> wrote:
>> People compiling Java to mobile phones (J2ME) actually do care on
>> savings of one kilobyte in the size of the compiled code...
>
>They would care only if saving 0.9 kb of code size allows them to use
>smaller memories.


Or if saving 0.9KB of code allows them to add more functions -- things
that might entice customers to buy this particular model -- without
enlarging the memory. Which it does.
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