On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:17:37PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> I think it's true to say that GNU ld is less good at garbage collection on ARM
> than x86.
Could you explain why? I would expect it to be as good because it uses
the same code base (GNU binutils).
> >just the simple fact that ARM is a RISC architecture and x86 CISC.
>
> Yeah. A size increase of 60% or so on a program that size does seem a bit
> more than one would hope for, but it's not impossible by any means.
I expect that the size differences between the stripped binaries are
smaller, but then again: it also depends on the source code and what
the compiler optimisers can squeeze out of it.
Erik
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