Size problem

Sun Jan 12 19:09:00 GMT 2003

> We need to start building libgcj as a DLL. That will make a 
> big difference. I don't believe anyone is working on this yet.

Is libgcj.dll + my.exe < my.exe ?
In my case, I would choose to distribute the libgcj.dll and my .exe
together, to avoid version issues.
(My assumption is that libgcj.dll is a shared dll for all those
pieces that are normally bundled into the .exe file.)
W.r.t. reducing size, I can shave off 30% of the download size
as soon as I get the -Os option working.
Sizes come in many flavours :-)
- disk size 
- download size
- memory size
- preceived size. Part of the size problem is preceived, i.e.
someone might draw conclusions about how big the download size
would be, based upon inspection of the .exe file size. 
Øyvind