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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [FW: Re: Different corba implementations]
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date:       1999-06-16 19:07:29
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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

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