Re: a.out binaries that are 66% faster than ELF

Marc Lehmann (mlehmann@hildesheim.sgh-net.de)
Thu, 27 Feb 1997 00:10:58 +0100 (MET)

>The a.out assembly uses smaller alignments (2 vs. 4 for variables, 4 vs.
>16 for code); it uses leading underscores where the elf assembly does
>not. I would've put copies of the .s files on the web, but there's

not aligning code to 16 bytes on an i486 is a sin.. this could
easily account for the 50%..

but the same effect can be seen on a pentium, with a recent compiler
(gcc snapshot), and alignments identical.. a.out > elf

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