[SLL] Assembly tutorial

[schuh]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Mike Stunes wrote:

>I wrote Hello World programs in Assembly, C, and C++. Compare the
>sizes of the resulting binaries:
>
>Assembly: 440 B
>C: 9121 B
>C++: 14081 B

As was pointed out, various optimizations and post-processing can trim the
final size of the last two.  On the other hand, assembler requires more
lines of source good - an inverse relationship prompting this question:

 Is the product

 (lines of code) * (bytes in executable binary)

 a constant?

The C and C++ source are about the same length and (within a factor of 2)
yield the same sized binary image; comparing just these two versions,
however, suggests non-inverse relationship.  Of course, it's the middle of
the night, so I don't think I'm being particular lucid here.  I know I'm
not being serious...  :)

ACM "Hello World" project:

 http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml

Enjoy.

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Mike Schuh - Seattle, Washington USA
http://www.farmdale.com