[fpc-pascal] Size of program vs library ?

noreply at z505.com noreply at z505.com
Mon May 15 23:32:32 CEST 2017


On 2017-05-15 04:19, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> If you want to compare today, you need to add the sizes of all the C
> libraries that are loaded during execution of a C program with the
> size of an FPC program.
> 
> I think you'll find that the sizes of FPC programs are not so different 
> then.
> 
> Just check the size of libc:
> 
> ls /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so -l


But if FPC also uses libc, in units like unix/linux/other .pp units, 
that means FPC is using C libs too..

This also was a claim made by Golang that it doesn't use C code so you 
are comparing apples to Women, but in fact, the women eat apples and 
oranges and See (C) too.



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