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<p>I guess that's the consequence of Microsoft Visual C++ having
such a large market share.</p>
<p>Gareth aka. Kit<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/11/2019 14:55, Ben Grasset via
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 8:28 AM J. Gareth Moreton
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feel like an elephant <br>
in the room that no-one talks about.<br>
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<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
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<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>
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<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>
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