On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
- FPC compiled as is: 388976 B
- FPC compiled with full smartlinking: 55920 B
- FPC compiled with C linkage: 388760 B
- FPC compiled with full smartlinking and C linkage: 56792 B
Maybe it is a good idea to add these numbers to the above WIKI page,
to quantify
the discussion and to illustrate what the effect is of various options.
Probably... 🤷♀️
And just for the fun of it, the size if the RTL is compiled into a
dynamic package and that is used:
- no smartlinking: 15784 B
- with smartlinking: 15608 B
With the librtl.so having a size of 649912 B which will ammortize itself
if multiple applications use dynamic packages.
Nice result. Smaller than a C program :-)
I think we should also explain why linking to C has almost no effect
on actual binary size.
That's mainly because the functions that differ between FPC_USE_LIBC and
not are rather slim syscalls anyway, so the main bunch of Pascal code is
still the same in both cases.
I know this, but most likely users will not realize this... :-)
Michael.
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