[LLVMdev] Newbie question

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Renato,

> For the C code I got smaller and faster programs, excellent! But for
> the C++ it was a bit of a shock to see a 100x increase in size. The
> execution time is 2-fold, but the programs are to simple and too fast
> to make any difference meaningful.

with llvm-g++ from subversion, and on x86-64 linux, I also see that
virtual.llvm-gpp is larger than virtual.gpp, but by a factor of 3.
The sizes of the .o files are:
  g++: 9704 bytes
  llvm-g++: 10728 bytes
so the size difference comes from linking.  If I link them both
using g++ then the final executable sizes are:
g++: 19881 bytes
llvm-g++: 21721 bytes
so the actual difference is due to some details of how llvm-g++ is
doing the linking.  I don't know what these details are though.

Ciao,

Duncan.