<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 8:28 AM J. Gareth Moreton <<a href="mailto:gareth@moreton-family.com">gareth@moreton-family.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The large binary sizes feel like an elephant <br>
in the room that no-one talks about.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Relatively speaking, FPC actually does very well as far as binary size for a language that specifically aims to have robust RTTI functionality. C++ binaries are often small simply because because it's quite normal in C++ to build with both exception handling and RTTI disabled entirely, for example.</div><div><br></div><div>Against basically anything else FPC generally comes out significantly smaller, though. Ever seen the size of a Go binary? Or a Rust binary? Even their Helllo Worlds are non-trivially larger than FPC's.</div><div><br></div><div>So I think no one talks about it essentially because FPC binaries are already exactly the size they logically should be, given the general goals of the language / compiler.</div></div></div>