Re: Making --with-wide-int the default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:34:24 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  >> Here emacs.exe grows from 60 to 70 MB when configuring --with-wide-int.
>  >
>  > You should compare stripped binaries, not unstripped ones.
> 
> A 15% increase for unstripped binaries strikes me as remarkable though.

15% of 10MB is much less than 15% of 60MB.

>  > 85% of
>  > those 70MB is DWARF debug info.
> 
> Obviously.  Does that info grow by 8.5 MB when configuring
> --with-wide-int?

I don't know.  I never bothered to find out.  I generally consider the
size of the binary on disk uninteresting.

The size of the Emacs memory footprint after startup is 17MB vs 15MB
for the non-wide-int build.