Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Fighting code bloat...

From: Kim Barrett (kab_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-26 13:34:54

At 10:07 PM +0000 10/24/05, Mats Eklund wrote:
>  what are the options to reduce executable footprint when using 
>boost serialization library?
>
>case somewhat scares me: The resulting executable generated by GCC 
>on Cygwin is (no optimizations) 1.5MB!
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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I would start here -|  Enable optimizations (at least -O) and I would
expect the templates will get rendered down to something a little more
reasonable. At least that's been my experience (including with this
library specifically).