Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: size of "Hello, World" programs Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 12:21:26 GMT References: <5482@acorn.co.uk> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 14 enevill@acorn.co.uk (Edward Nevill) writes: > The best solution is to use the shared C library. This will result > in the size of the the "Hello, World" program being reduced to 5k > from 30k and the size of larger programs being reduced by 60k. > The drawback is that the shared C library must always be loaded, > however given that there will usually be more than one C program > running at a time this should result in a net win (somewhere between > 0 and 60k win for two C programs / modules simultaneously loaded). Why not dump the BASIC, making it an executable on disk, and put the shared C library on ROM? mathew.