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Re: Size of translated programs

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Aug 22, 2003
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> I made some tests and found out, that the .exe size sometimes is
> reduced _considerably_ by shrouding before translating. This applies
> e.g. to several Win32Lib programs. I got the following results with
> 'boxes.exw', that ships with Win32Lib (version 0.58.08).
> 
> 
> Translated for, and compiled with Borland C++ 5.5.1 Command-line
> Compiler (size of .exe files in bytes):
> 
> normal    reduced
> ------    -------
> 811008     594432   ==>  26.7% smaller
> 
> 
> Translated for, and compiled with Open Watcom C/C++ 1.0
> (size of .exe files in bytes):
> 
> normal    reduced
> ------    -------
> 807424     590336   ==>  26.9% smaller

Thanks. That's surprising.
When I tried to duplicate your results using
boxes.exw in Win32Lib 58.8 and 59.1 (I don't have 58.08)
I got:

normal     reduced
------     -------
620,544     607,744

shroud -clear boxes.exw
gave me:
     deleted 2249 of 3945 constants
     deleted  413 of  677 routines

You might want to double check your results.
I guess it's possible that in your case
there was maybe one critical constant declaration
deleted by the shrouder but not the translator.
The removal of one key declaration could trigger the
removal of scores of other routines and constants.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com