Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

From: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh_at_linux01.gwdg.de)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date:	Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:06:39 +0100 (MET)
    To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    
    

    >.... if you don't mind bloating your application:
    >
    >% ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.a
    >4224 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4312536 Oct 19 21:55 /usr/lib/libxml2.a

    Whoa. Bet its creator compiled with -g -O2 rather than -g0 -O2. ANd with
    -static instead of with <dynamic>. Yay look at this:

    22:06 io:~ # l /usr/lib/libxml2.so -L
    #SUSE# -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1145089 Apr 6 2004 /usr/lib/libxml2.so

    4x smaller!

    Jan Engelhardt

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