Re: [gtk-list] Re: Drag and Drop, try 1

[Otto Hammersmith <otto redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 12:05:03PM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > >(Looking at the shared library sizes, it does seem like gtk is larger -
> > >libgtk.so.1.0.0 is 1.8M on the sparc, and that's not include libgdk or
> > >libglib. Needs to be looked into.).
> > 
> > For sure you are using our RPMs, and quite possibly otherwise, that
> > includes debugging (-DDEBUG and -ggdb) output that bloats the library
> > considerably.  Don't go by disk size, try stripping the library and
> > see how big the actual code is.
> 
> Before stripping all the gtk+ libraries take just over two megs, after
> stripping they take 570K (and that can be cut down even more if debugging
> is turned off from the start, allowing gcc to do space-sensitive
> optimizations). 
> 
> Before stripping, qt takes 1100K, after stripping it takes 940K.
> 
> And the winner is... GTK :-)

And I don't think Qt uses templates at all.. thank goodness for that.
Any Qt app that does will have unbelieveable code bloat.  At least in
C, you can -see- how big your code is going to be after it's
compiled.:)
-- 
					-Otto.