tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post2604583736192857511..comments2024-01-16T14:32:49.175+00:00Comments on Arcane Sentiment: It's bloat all the way downArcane Sentimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04144052171693893368noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454006.post-22176497288341150522008-04-06T23:35:00.000+00:002008-04-06T23:35:00.000+00:00I feel the same way. I have the habit of seeing th...I feel the same way. I have the habit of seeing through abstractions. It's how I've learned to understand programming - from an operational viewpoint. Very few language implementations really care too much about the low-level details. Heck, some of them compile to C, how lazy is that? I wouldn't go as far as deliberately abusing ELF format - I would go with minimal valid.<BR/><BR/>It turns out not to matter much since memory and cycles are plentiful. But it still makes me cringe :-(<BR/><BR/>One funny thing I found is that GCC inserts a comment section into every object file. And when you link your program you get the same comment duplicated over and over again from each object file. This is the default behaviour! I always use 'strip -R .comment' to get rid of it.shaurzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03588038254545671774noreply@blogger.com