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FreeDOS/FreeCOM: which compiler produces smallest binary? (Developers)

posted by bretjohn Homepage E-mail, Rio Rancho, NM, 04.01.2022, 18:12

There are three different things being talked about here: size on disk, size in memory, and speed. While those are all interrelated, they are somewhat independent. In general, small disk size = small memory size = faster, but that is not ALWAYS true. There is a fourth category to add to the list also, which is maintainability. All of those things matter to different degrees for different situations (e.g., there are still floppy distributions being made for FreeDOS where size on disk matters A LOT.

When you're writing and compiling/assembling/linking programs, there are always tradeoffs between the different categories, and which one is more important depends on the situation and environment.

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