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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 00:45:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:28:47 +0100, Malcolm McLean wrote:

> On 07/06/2024 01:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 15:38:21 -0500, BGB-Alt wrote:
>> 
>>> *2: Seemingly the main way I am aware of to get small binaries is to
>>> use an older version of MSVC (such as 6.0 to 9.0), as the binary-bloat
>>> started to get much more obvious around Visual Studio 2010, but is
>>> less of an issue with VS2005 or VS2008.
>> 
>> Newer version of proprietary compiler generates worse code than older
>> version?!?
>
> If the code is calling extern gunctions that do IO, we woul expect these
> to be massively more sophisticated on a modern ststem Witha little
> comouter, pribtf just wtites acharacter raster and utimalthe he Os picks
> the up and flushes it out to a pixel raster. And that' aal it's doing.
> Whilst on a modrern syste, stdout can do whole lot of intricate things.

Nothing to do with the compiler, though.