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by kazinator 1457 days ago
> Here are the number for chibicc:

    text    data    bss     dec     hex
    753670  40034   29848   823552  c9100
> And here are the numbers for kefir:

    text    data    bss     dec     hex
   2374884 12071   30120   2417075 24e1b3
These are behemoths; especially the latter. Only compared to the grotesquelly aberrant code sizes of GCC and its ilk does this look "small".

(The numbers in fact give me a dollop confidence that these are might be substantially more than toys.)