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

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Jonathan Morgan wrote:

> 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.

Actually, for Mercury on cygwin it is more a reflection of the fact that
we only currently support static linking.

Julien.
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