SUMMARY: binaries become larger on 5.1A than on 4.0F

From: Nicolas.Courtel@regis-dgac.net
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 04:02:35 EST


Original message:

> After upgrading our system from 4.0F (PK7) to 5.1A (PK3), we found out
> that the C++ binaries of our major application were getting 10 to 35%
> larger.
>
> The hardware and source code are identical, we have only changed the OS
> and therefore the C++ compiler.
>
> Is there a known explanation for this?

My question was not precise enough to be answered, but anyway it looks
like we shouldn't care about this size change, that may be caused by the
C++ compiler (that is not part of the OS) or by the linker.

I have asked the question because of a performance problem using these
new binaries; we finally found out that this problem was caused by wrong
values in sysconfigtab.

Thanks to Stepan Kucherenko and Dr Thomas Blinn for they replies.

-- 
Nicolas


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