> well it was more of a mame speed up i was hoping for, moreso than a compile speedup. > > thanks though
I've posted this on MW before, but let's refresh: all modern OSes (any NT-kernel Windows (e.g. 2000/XP/Vista/7/8) + all versions of Linux/*BSD/Mac OS X) only load the parts of a program that are actively running at any one time. The rest remains on disk. If you run Pac Man, only that driver and the associated core parts (Z80 CPU, Namco wavetable sound) are actually loaded. Hence the executable size doesn't have any impact on runtime performance.
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