Re: [Dev-C++] Executable size is huge

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Jack Chen wrote:

> Does anyone think the developers of Dev-C++ will change it? It's very
> scary.

This isn't really unique to Mingw32. In fact, you will hear a lot of C
fans argue that one of the reasons they don't like C++ is because the
Standard C++ library is so bloated, and does produce such large binaries.

Now the GCC compiler is not known for being the most efficient compiler in
the world, or for doing a really good job of optimizing code, and the
problem is exagerated in GCC over some other compilers. But the problem
does exist in other compilers as well.

But I think what you need to ask is does it matter? GCC is free, and it
does optimize well enough for all but the most demanding tasks. The C++
Standard Library might be bloated, but is a 400K executable really a
problem when the average computer today has 256Mb of RAM?