[mercury-users] Generating small and fast binaries in Mercury

[Jonathan Morgan]

On 7/5/07, Alexsandro Soares <a_s_soares at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> I compiled the fibonacci program in  http://en.literateprograms.org/Fibonacci_numbers_(Mercury)  using Cygwin. The binary size was 1715 Kbytes. Is there any way to generate a smaller binary? I have tried the compiler option --optimise-space, but nothing has changed.

My experience with Cygwin has been that a basic hello world
application takes up at least 1.6MB in asm_fast.gc, but only around
1MB in hlc.gc, and more in the various profiling and debugging grades.
 You could try using hlc.gc, but it makes bigger files for some files
(for example, I have found that extras/xml is generally larger with
hlc.gc).  Under Linux binaries are generally smaller because shared
libraries are used.  I'm afraid that this is a reality of high-level
languages and libraries - they take up more space because a lot more
functionality is used.

Jon
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mercury-users mailing list
Post messages to:       mercury-users at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Administrative Queries: owner-mercury-users at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Subscriptions:          mercury-users-request at csse.unimelb.edu.au
--------------------------------------------------------------------------