[Info-vax] x86-64 VMS executable image sizes and memory requirements ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-12-18, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We're building everything NOOPTIMIZE so it isn't worth looking at.
>
> That said, 
>
> EDTSHR.EXE, Alpha, optimized: 493 blocks on disk, 179,712 bytes of code
> EDTSHR.EXE, Itanium, optimized: 724 blocks on disk, 302,960 bytes of code
> EDTSHR.EXE, x86, NOT optimized: 589 blocks on disk, 227,120 bytes of code
>

Thanks, John.

I'm amused that x86 not optimised is better than Itanium optimised. :-)

Code density on Alpha is lousy compared to VAX and from what I could tell
from reading the Itanium manuals, Itanium appeared to have even worse
code density.

Simon.

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