[fpc-devel] inline... and philosophy

[Nikolai Zhubr]

08.11.2019 16:28, J. Gareth Moreton:
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> No gain? Wow, is whole-program optimisation that underperforming? Given
> the bloated size of FPC's binaries compared to, say, what a mainstream
> C++ compiler than do, I would have thought that there could be a lot

Keep in mind that pretty much any tiny MSVC application would these days 
push a (few-megabytes-sized) vcredist package in front of it. Similarly, 
gcc would typically dynamically link against some-megabytes-sized libc 
and other system libraries. On the other hand, FPC typically produces 
self-contained binaries with all required RTL code built-in. Whether it 
is good or not depends on your usage context, but application binary 
size comparison should at least take this into account to be of some use.

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Regards,
Nikolai

> that could be stripped out in regards to unused functions and the like.
> Or am I missing something?  The large binary sizes feel like an elephant
> in the room that no-one talks about.  What causes them?
>
> Gareth aka. Kit
>
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