Re: Panda Bears will die, Sloths will live on

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 19/10/2011 10:27, Patrick Rapin wrote:
> >   #include<SDL.h>
> > On my Mac this generates a C file 13977 lines long via cpp. On my Linux box a measly 4573 lines long.
>
> >   #include<GL/gh.h>
> > Is 7909 lines lines on Linux.
> >
> > Awesome!
>
> Ridiculous :-)
>
> #include<windows.h>
> With Visual Studio 2010, this single inclusion generates... 231'215 lines !

It reminds me a Gist showing that a simple hello world in Dart ended in thousands of lines 
in JavaScript...
People were amazed/disgusted, obviously overseeing the fact that the compiler isn't 
optimized and just includes the whole runtime. Well, that, or I hope they were just having 
some fun... ^_^'

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