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From: Simon Buchan (simon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-27 01:11:53


Robert Ramey wrote:
> Are you building in release mode? This would be curcial.
>
> Robert Ramey
> "Mats Eklund" <matek994_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:BAY12-F231EFFAD6B4FD65FFD2F6E8D770_at_phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> what are the options to reduce executable footprint when using boost serialization library?
>
> I just tried the boost serialization library because I'd like to store and load polymorphic classes on a stream, binary as well as xml. The library seems to meet these needs very well, however, I am working on an embedded platform with limited memory resources (executable size < 2MBs), and my small test case somewhat scares me: The resulting executable generated by GCC on Cygwin is (no optimizations) 1.5MB! Here is the source (based on an example from boost pointer container library):
>
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