code space for globals initialization

Stephen Weeks MLton@research.nj.nec.com
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:01:14 -0700 (PDT)


Taking a look at the latest mlton.c, I see that about 2.1% of the
lines of code are for globals initialization.  Maybe the actual bytes
of object file per line is higher for globals than the rest of the
code (I suspect it is), but the code space for globals is still
probably < 5%.