On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:28:10 -0500, Andrej Mitrovic
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/20/10, Steven Schveighoffer <[email protected]> wrote:
The reality is that
executable size *does* matter, and it always will. Smaller programs
load
and run faster.
Smaller programs, as in *less code*? Yes. But I really doubt that an
application with the *exact same code* is faster if it's executable
size shrinks. There are some apps that specialize in shrinking an
executable size, I know that.
No, I mean smaller exe size. It's well known that shrinking an app so
portions of it (or all of it) fits into the cache can increase performance.
If using common shared libraries, the OS only need load and store the
library in memory once, so it can save memory and load more programs, or a
program that consumes more memory during runtime can run faster without
having to swap to disk.
-Steve
