[C++-sig] bindings size

[Renato Araujo]

I'm current using "CXXFLAGS=-ffunction-sections -Os" and "LDFLAGS
--gc-sections", and the library already striped, without strip the
size is about 12MB.


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM, David Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com> wrote:
>
> on Fri Jan 23 2009, Renato Araujo <renatox-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>> After some vacation I got back to my library binding. Most problems
>> have been solved
>> but now I got another big problem here. My current binding library is very huge
>> compared to the wrapped C++ library (about four times). Checking the
>> code I found
>>  that the components responsible for a great deal of the size are
>> "class_" instantiation
>> and ".def" functions. Without these functions my code size is about
>> 300k and with
>> these functions my code grows to enormous 4MB.
>>
>> I would like to know if there is a way to minimize the library size, some other
>> function which I can call instead of ".def" functions, to minimize
>> template usage,
>> or some template call that I can transform into a function call.
>
> The usual C++ tricks apply: turn on optimizations and inlining (if using
> bjam add "release" to the command line), and strip symbols from the
> result if on *nix.
>
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Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho