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VC++ 6.0 larger exe files explained

Stidolph, David stidolph at origin.ea.com
Wed Jul 21 10:31:36 EDT 1999 
This might (stress this is a pure guess) have something to do with virtual
memory and its size being 4k pages.  The goal is not to make things bigger,
but to make them faster/more powerful and it is a common trade of space for
time.  I'm not saying they succeeded, but compilers used to live and die by
their benchmarks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Becker [mailto:robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:30 AM
To: python-list at cwi.nl
Subject: VC++ 6.0 larger exe files explained


<rant>
As part of the Wintel push to take over the world it seems as though
VC++ 6.0 will now only generate files with sections 0x1000 (4k) or
longer. Under 5.0 and before the linker would allow much smaller exe
file sections. So python.exe which used to be 5k becomes 20k. Needless
to say this should also apply to dll's etc and appears to offer no
obvious advantage. Bill has never been other than cavalier with our
space time resources.
</rant>
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Robin Becker
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