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  1. Subject:     Re: CW9 ODFDraw built with RTTI & Native Exceptions
  2. Sent:        6/2/96 11:02 PM
  3. Received:    6/3/96 7:58 AM
  4. From:        Jim Lloyd, jim@melongem.com
  5. Reply-To:    ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
  6. To:          OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
  7.  
  8. At 4:43 PM 6/1/96, Bill Hembree wrote:
  9. >  Incidentaly, when we rebuilt ODFDraw with these options changed, the file
  10. >ended up at 885,268 with our little bit of code added.  This is admittely a
  11. >large hit in size, but we did not optimize for anything and will probably,
  12. >at least for testing, continue to use the native versions.  Does anyone
  13. >here know why the native versions of RTTI & Exceptions cost so much in code
  14. >size?
  15.  
  16. The zero runtime overhead implementation of native exception handling
  17. achieves zero time overhead at the cost of increased code. We saw an
  18. increase in code size of about 10-12% when building with native exceptions.
  19.  
  20. Jim Lloyd
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