morgan@csc32.dec.com (Mike Morgan in Colorado Springs) (04/04/91)
I picked up THE TAO OF OBJECTS. In this book there is a fairly short program (using virtual objects??) to put on the screen two models of strange attractors. My question is this. For a source of only 4k bytes or so why is the executable 53k?? No sig. needed. You know why.
steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) (04/05/91)
morgan@csc32.dec.com (Mike Morgan in Colorado Springs) writes: > I picked up THE TAO OF OBJECTS. In this book there is a fairly > short program (using virtual objects??) to put on the screen two models > of strange attractors. > My question is this. For a source of only 4k bytes or so why is the > executable 53k?? Consider the Classic C program main(){ printf("%g\n", 1.2); } which is less than 30 characters. Would you expect the executable to be similar in size? This requires I/O and floating-point packages to support the simple printf. I am not familiar with the program you mention, but it must be pulling in a number of library support routines, and some of these (like I/O) must be rather large to support the functionality demanded by the their specifications. -- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com