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Huz · 09-10-2006, 12:27 PM

Executable size vs speed of execution is a well-known tradeoff, to the extent that any good compiler will allow you to optimise for one or the other, for the same source code, as you see fit. You can't have both. This doesn't prove anything about hand-crafted space optimisations using assembler, mind you, but it's sensible to assume that the same applies.

09-10-2006, 12:27 PM	#29
Huz Kersal Massive Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 1,430	Executable size vs speed of execution is a well-known tradeoff, to the extent that any good compiler will allow you to optimise for one or the other, for the same source code, as you see fit. You can't have both. This doesn't prove anything about hand-crafted space optimisations using assembler, mind you, but it's sensible to assume that the same applies. Last edited by Huz; 09-10-2006 at 12:33 PM.