From kde-devel Wed Jun 16 19:07:29 1999 From: Uwe Thiem Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:07:29 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: [FW: Re: Different corba implementations] X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92955317327944 On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote: > Phil Mesnier wrote: > > First, the size issue, I did some poking around and yes, ACE is > > on the order of 4 megs, TAO on the order of 3.5 megs. This is > > larger than MICO, but not by orders of magnitude. I have seen > > that using the egcs compiler on solaris make a product that _IS_ > > an order of magnitude larger, but that is because it adds all the > > object files, symbol tables and whatever else is need for debugging. > > Certainly not what is needed for a shipping product. > > Hmm.. okay, I'll admit to this: my ACE/TAO experience was on a Solaris > box and my MICO experience is on Linux. I've noticed that Linux > libraries and executables are significantly smaller than the Solaris > equivalent so I wasn't really comparing apples to apples, there. This isn't entirely true but applies to Linux/Intel. Suns are RISC systems which necessarily produce larger binaries. If you try Linux/Alpha (which is a RISC system as well) binary sizes are comparable to those on Suns. Uwe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uwe Thiem Tel: +264 - 061 - 244511 P.O.Box 30955 Fax: +264 - 061 - 244511 Windhoek Email: uwe@uwix.alt.na Republic of Namibia uwe@kde.org http://www.kde.org ********************************** You can still escape from the GATES of hell: Use KDE! -------------------------------------------------------------------------