<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 06.01.2024 um 20:05 schrieb Matthew Phillips via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>I compiled the Hello World program from the docs and noticed that it's<br>435k. Compared to a lot of newer languages, like Golang, that's not bad<br>at all.<br><br>I then compiled the equivalent C program with gcc which came out at<br>33k. So I'm just curious, where does the difference comes from?<br>Could it be that fpc is including some parts that are not being used in<br>this simple of a program or is more going on?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><a href="https://wiki.freepascal.org/Size_Matters">https://wiki.freepascal.org/Size_Matters</a></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br>Like I said, purely a curiosity, not intended as a criticism. Cheers.<br>_______________________________________________<br>fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org<br>https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>