Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!csc32.dec.com!morgan From: morgan@csc32.dec.com (Mike Morgan in Colorado Springs) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: C++ executables so big... Summary: C++ executables so large... Message-ID: <1991Apr3.175826.29695@pa.dec.com> Date: 3 Apr 91 16:52:48 GMT Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Distribution: usa Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 9 I picked up THE TAO OF OBJECTS. In this book there is a fairly short program (using virtual objects??) to put on the screen two models of strange attractors. My question is this. For a source of only 4k bytes or so why is the executable 53k?? No sig. needed. You know why.