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From: mgardi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (M.Gardi - ICR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Eiffel vs. C++
Message-ID: <5975@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 89 12:58:27 GMT
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Reply-To: mgardi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (M.Gardi - ICR)
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I have heard that eiffel creates hideously large executables from very
trivial programs. Does anyone have any information as to whether this is 
true or not?? I found that using advantage C++ also produced large
executables...one of the reason why I am using Zortech C_++ currently. It does
not seem to have this problem (executable size seems on average to be about
1/5 the size of advantage c++ code).
We're talking 35K here for a hello world program in advantage...something
that can't be tolerated on the PC. One source gave the comparable eiffel     
program a number even much higher.



Peter DeVries
Mutual Life of Canada (519) 888-2957
c/o mgardi@watdcsu