Subject: Re: code bloat (45%!) between NetBSD-1.5 and NetBSD-1.6.1
To: Tad Hunt <tad@entrisphere.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 09/23/2003 16:23:43
[ On Monday, September 22, 2003 at 22:22:10 (-0700), Tad Hunt wrote: ]
> Subject: code bloat (45%!) between NetBSD-1.5 and NetBSD-1.6.1
> 
> Did I just pick a bad example of a program which has received new
> features between the two releases (dd), or should I expect the same
> program compiled on a NetBSD-1.6.1 system to be between 3% to 45%
> larger?

Your test is potentially meaningless for more reasons than you might
suspect.  You need to use the "size" command to do a proper comparison
of code size.

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