[fpc-pascal] making FPC more code optimized
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Sun Apr 29 15:54:14 CEST 2012
In our previous episode, Florian Kl?mpfl said:
> > make sysutils/runtime etc an external loadable library and we are
> > going to see FPC generate similar sized executables for similarly
> > sized programs.
>
> It makes them look smaller but their footprint is actually larger so
> this is exactly what Ido doesn't want.
And on top of that it sounds like there are lumbering assumptions that
smaller is also faster. Something that definitely isn't true when you move
from static to dynamic linking.
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