Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:17:49 -0500
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>     As a result, now the executable is 10,671,313 bytes on
>     GNU/Linux.  It's still 1.6M bytes larger than Emacs 22, but
>     I'm not sure it's worth making more effort to reduce it.
> 
> Thanks forn doing the work to shrink it.
> 
> It is no disaster to be 1.6 meg bigger.

Btw, I think we should be comparing the sizes of .data section (and
maybe some other similar sections), rather than the size of the
executable file on disk.  The latter typically includes debug info and
also the code, which typically grows in later releases.