Re: C23 thoughts and opinions

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.
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