On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:20, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Nevertheless, I provide three programs, one written in > C, the other in C++ and the third in assembly. A tar.gz > file is attached for those interested. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57800 Jan 20 10:16 hello+ > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 460 Jan 20 10:16 helloa > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2948 Jan 20 10:16 helloc > > The code size, generated from assembly is 460 bytes. > The code size, generated from C is 2,948 bytes. > The code size, generated from C++ is 57,800 bytes. > > Clearly, C++ is not the optimum language for writing > a "Hello World" program. I like C++ and hate to see it so unfairly maligned. Here's a much better example: Makefile: helloc: hello.c gcc -Os -s -o helloc hello.c hellocpp: hello.cpp g++ -Os -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -s -o hellocpp hello.cpp Both programs contain exactly the same code: one main() function using puts("Hello world!"). # ls -l -rwxrwxr-x 1 jbriggs jbriggs 2840 Jan 20 10:02 helloc -rwxrwxr-x 1 jbriggs jbriggs 2948 Jan 20 10:06 hellocpp 108 extra bytes is hardly the end of the world. -- Zan Lynx