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to: Geo
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2005-05-08 00:16:10
subject: Re: This is not an Anti-OSS Flame

From: Adam Flinton 

Geo wrote:
> Actually, it does mean larger because you can't have all tiny pieces. In
> other words a dll has to have a bunch of related functions and you have to
> include the whole dll even if you just want one of those functions. There is
> a bunch of bloat in that kind of method but I don't see any easy way around
> it where you could have reusable chunks of code, if you try to avoid that
> the result is basically the same thing as a high level language.
>
> Although.. I suppose a compiler could be smart and simply remove the unused
> functions.
>
Quite a lot a do.

Debug > logger statements are one exaxmple i..e if debug is off then the
code is unreachable ergo...
etc


Adam

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