We have recently ported our application (www.lyx.org) to Qt (from xforms) and were rather disappointed to find the final binary size on UNIX to be much larger for Qt frontend. So I did some investigating.
I do not know how prevalent this is, but at least qvaluelist.h has FAR too much code in its header. Don't believe me ? Here is the sizes of a file converted from using two QStringList instances for filling combo boxes, into using an explicit string literal array + ->insertStrList : moz qt2 164 size QDocument.o.bak QDocument.o text data bss dec hex filename 58532 908 0 59440 e830 QDocument.o.bak 37364 964 0 38328 95b8 QDocument.o That's 21Kb of sheer bloat !! LyX people: please stay away from the Qt API unless necessary. Qt people: is anything planned to fix this ? Last I checked modern computers, icache horkage was more of a killer than a few function calls. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
