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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Code size generated by Turbo C
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 13:09:39 GMT
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In article <26252@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>In article <139400009@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> klg0582@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>One thing I don't like for Turbo C is that the
>>executable code for the program of same purpose is larger in C than in
>>pascal. Is this generally true or is there a way to avoid this?
>
>This may be true for trivially small programs but the difference
>is probably insignificant for large programs.

That makes sense if the difference is all in the linking (TP's linker is
better at dead code/dead data removal than TC's), but I've never seen 
a comparison of the code generation that would convince me whether or not
that's true.  Have you, or has anyone else?
 
Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu