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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Dear Mercury folks ,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Indeed,stripping the executable of 2289 KB
(!),</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>resulted in a fairly small 415 KB sized file,
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<DIV><FONT size=2>which is absolutely an acceptable size.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>When i stripped down eliza :-), the largest included sample, i
got</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>an file of 429 KB,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>so i<FONT size=2>t seems that most of these four hundred KB
are</FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2>runtime, as Fergus already pointed out.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I was so excited of all that stripping,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>so i stripped mercury_compile.exe (originally 14 MB, now
only</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>2,9 MB). This wasn't too dangerous i hope ? i couldn't
help,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>it was stronger than myself :-). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The compiler doesn't seem to suffer from it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Is there a way to strip compiled files automatically ?
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Maybe you could fix this in the next
distribution.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I would like to thank Fergus for his help, </FONT><FONT
size=2>(I haven't tried out the shared libs though)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>and the whole Mercury team
for the nice language they gave us.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> Koen</FONT></DIV>
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