Binary Size once code is build

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hi,

So I wrote a simple program where I perform addition on elements of 2 arrays on GPU. Once I build the project, I found my executable size as 114KB and the same code without CUDA when build has executable size as 8KB. Is there any way to reduce executables size?

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reduce or minimize the number of GPU architecture options you specify when compiling

compile using a dynamic cudart link instead of a static cudart link

both of these are covered in the nvcc manual

[url]https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-compiler-driver-nvcc/index.html[/url]

Since you’ve provided no information about any of this, you may already be doing these things, I have no idea. 114KB is already a small size for a CUDA executable in my experience

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I am using visual studio 2012 to build the project.

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So the settings are same as you have suggested and still the same size. My concern is basically, in case of a basic code if the size generated is 114KB. Hence for a large project, executable the size would grow more.