ID Number: Q73697
1.00
WINDOWS
Summary:
Each line containing blank space or a comment in any code window of a
Visual Basic application adds 2 bytes to the size of the compiled
executable file (.EXE). This is not a problem with Visual Basic, but
rather it is part of Visual Basic's design.
This information applies to the Visual Basic programming system
version 1.0 for Windows.
More Information:
The 2 byte overhead for each line containing blank space or a comment
is generated as part of the pseudo-code for the application in the
VB.EXE development environment. The program is run in "interpreted
mode" based on this pseudo-code. Because an .EXE program is generated
based on this pseudo-code (in other words, Visual Basic does not use a
compiler and linker), the 2 byte overhead is copied to the .EXE
program. The only workaround for this behavior is to remove comments
and blank lines before compiling the Visual Basic project.
Additional reference words: 1.00