Reducing your executable size

Some people complain that Allegro produces very large executables. This is certainly true: a simple "hello world" program will be about 200k. But don't worry, it is a relatively fixed overhead and won't increase as your program gets larger. As George so succinctly put it, anyone who is concerned about the ratio between library and program code should just get to work and write more program code :-)

Having said that, there are several things you can do to make your programs smaller:





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