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DanielRibeiro on Oct 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Smallest x86 ELF Hello World

Well, on one of the Dart threads, bashing its hello world size, this[1] came up:

Compile "Hello world" into an executable, and see how many kilobytes it takes on most architectures, despite the object file being a few bytes.

This thread pretty much responds to that. It is no 17000 lines, nor 17000K, it is just 142 bytes (other comments suggest it is 62).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098660

sambeau on Oct 11, 2011 [–]

It makes more sense for VM byte-code as the bytes not only have to be loaded (probably by the page, again) but the bytes have to be run and possibly jitted, too.

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