Hmmm.. I am beginning to formulate a future research topic idea..

Figuring out exactly what the "bloat" is in generated executables from both tools. I mean, I know that a lot of FP/Ls exe size is due to debugging info and not using the smart linker. One test form I tossed together (just an app with a single MDI form, a 30-item menu, and about 10 other controls, no actual functional code) generated a whopping 12MB EXE. Of course, I went in and twiddled with compiler/linker settings, and it went down to 1.8MB, but that's still a bit excessive for not a whole lot of code. As a result, I would conclude that either the code is not as "severable" as it should be, or the linker is not as smart as it could be.

Guess I need to whip out my file analyzer and see what's under the hood.