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- 3What's a floppy disk? ;)500 - Internal Server Error– 500 - Internal Server Error2015-09-24 19:42:23 +00:00Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 19:42
- 1@500-InternalServerError What is Ada? :DBenjiWiebe– BenjiWiebe2015-09-26 01:42:54 +00:00Commented Sep 26, 2015 at 1:42
- 4for newcomers, floppy disk is about 1.4 MiBDisplay Name– Display Name2015-09-26 07:51:38 +00:00Commented Sep 26, 2015 at 7:51
- 4I have seen modern Ada executables under 200 bytes. But if your compiler pulls in things like a full tasking runtime by default, whether you use tasks or not, then 1MB or so is to be expected. And it's not usually worth the bother of stripping it down.user_1818839– user_18188392015-09-26 17:13:21 +00:00Commented Sep 26, 2015 at 17:13
- @BrianDrummond, sounds like a really crappy runtime, or a crappy runtime and library and linker. In a training video I saw many years ago, Jean Ichbiah et al mentioned that a typical Ada runtime (for the original version of the language) would be about 4K. Out of curiosity, I checked this against the TI 320C30 runtime package we were using. He was right on the money.John R. Strohm– John R. Strohm2016-03-10 21:05:42 +00:00Commented Mar 10, 2016 at 21:05
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