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Size Of The SQLite Library

The code space used by the SQLite library depends heavily on the target platform, what compiler and optimization options are used to generate object code, and which optional features of SQLite are included or omitted from the build. This page provides examples of what to expect.

SQLite version 3.7.8 (2011-09-19) is less than 350KiB in size on x86 with -Os and less than 400KiB (409KB) on x64. The -O2 and -O3 builds are larger, presumably due to loop unrolling and function inlining.


Case 1

Optimization
Setting
Size
(bytes)
Run-time
(Relative to -O0)
-O0 529765 1.00
-O1 397204 0.71
-Os 333059 0.73
-O2 418161 0.68
-O3 828602 0.66

Case 2

Optimization
Setting
Size
(bytes)
Run-time
(Relative to -O0)
-O0 625841 1.00
-O1 455072 0.62
-Os 404201 0.59
-O2 499543 0.53
-O3 678465 0.54

Case 3

Optimization
Setting
Size
(bytes)
Run-time
(Relative to -O0)
-O0 806598 1.00
-O1 508500 0.61
-Os 481816 0.57
-O2 614346 0.55
-O3 661622 0.55

The Effect Of Compile-Time Options On Library Size

The next study shows the effect that various compile-time options for SQLite have on the size of the resulting library file. The following size figures are computed with an early beta of SQLite version 3.7.9 using GCC version 4.6.1 for X86_64 running on Ubuntu with the -Os option. Actual sizes and size differences may vary by compiler and system.

Compile-Time Option Library
Footprint
Difference
From
Baseline
Percentage
Difference
All OMIT options 248363 -155714 -38.536%
SQLITE_OMIT_TRIGGER 382038 -22039 -5.454%
SQLITE_OMIT_WAL 388281 -15796 -3.909%
SQLITE_OMIT_FLOATING_POINT 390469 -13608 -3.368%
SQLITE_OMIT_VIRTUALTABLE 391156 -12921 -3.198%
SQLITE_OMIT_PRAGMA 391292 -12785 -3.164%
SQLITE_OMIT_FOREIGN_KEY 393555 -10522 -2.604%
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTOVACUUM 395589 -8488 -2.101%
SQLITE_OMIT_SUBQUERY 396313 -7764 -1.921%
SQLITE_OMIT_COMPOUND_SELECT 396810 -7267 -1.798%
SQLITE_OMIT_EXPLAIN 397011 -7066 -1.749%
SQLITE_OMIT_DATETIME_FUNCS 397179 -6898 -1.707%
SQLITE_OMIT_INTEGRITY_CHECK 397438 -6639 -1.643%
SQLITE_OMIT_ATTACH 397951 -6126 -1.516%
SQLITE_OMIT_ALTERTABLE 398344 -5733 -1.419%
SQLITE_OMIT_UTF16 399069 -5008 -1.239%
SQLITE_OMIT_SHARED_CACHE 399249 -4828 -1.195%
SQLITE_OMIT_INCRBLOB 399889 -4188 -1.036%
SQLITE_OMIT_ANALYZE 400207 -3870 -0.958%
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTHORIZATION 401002 -3075 -0.761%
SQLITE_OMIT_VACUUM 401026 -3051 -0.755%
SQLITE_OMIT_PAGER_PRAGMAS 401168 -2909 -0.720%
SQLITE_OMIT_OR_OPTIMIZATION 401374 -2703 -0.669%
SQLITE_OMIT_VIEW 401500 -2577 -0.638%
SQLITE_OMIT_BUILTIN_TEST 401711 -2366 -0.586%
SQLITE_OMIT_XFER_OPT 402052 -2025 -0.501%
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTOINCREMENT 402098 -1979 -0.490%
SQLITE_OMIT_SCHEMA_PRAGMAS 402312 -1765 -0.437%
SQLITE_OMIT_TRACE 402369 -1708 -0.423%
SQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION 402611 -1466 -0.363%
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTOMATIC_INDEX 402685 -1392 -0.344%
SQLITE_OMIT_LIKE_OPTIMIZATION 402928 -1149 -0.284%
SQLITE_OMIT_REINDEX 402975 -1102 -0.273%
SQLITE_OMIT_GET_TABLE 402999 -1078 -0.267%
SQLITE_OMIT_COMPLETE 403135 -942 -0.233%
SQLITE_OMIT_TEMPDB 403200 -877 -0.217%
SQLITE_OMIT_BTREECOUNT 403301 -776 -0.192%
SQLITE_OMIT_LOCALTIME 403307 -770 -0.191%
SQLITE_OMIT_COMPILEOPTION_DIAGS 403309 -768 -0.190%
SQLITE_OMIT_FLAG_PRAGMAS 403441 -636 -0.157%
SQLITE_OMIT_QUICKBALANCE 403455 -622 -0.154%
SQLITE_OMIT_CAST 403457 -620 -0.153%
SQLITE_OMIT_CHECK 403501 -576 -0.143%
SQLITE_OMIT_MEMORYDB 403555 -522 -0.129%
SQLITE_OMIT_BLOB_LITERAL 403619 -458 -0.113%
SQLITE_OMIT_SCHEMA_VERSION_PRAGMAS 403748 -329 -0.081%
SQLITE_OMIT_LOOKASIDE 403753 -324 -0.080%
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTOINIT 403759 -318 -0.079%
SQLITE_DISABLE_DIRSYNC 403782 -295 -0.073%
SQLITE_OMIT_DECLTYPE 403794 -283 -0.070%
SQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED 403794 -283 -0.070%
SQLITE_OMIT_BETWEEN_OPTIMIZATION 403929 -148 -0.037%
SQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK 403957 -120 -0.030%
SQLITE_OMIT_TRUNCATE_OPTIMIZATION 403984 -93 -0.023%
SQLITE_OMIT_TCL_VARIABLE 404003 -74 -0.018%
Baseline SQLite Library Size 404077 0 0.000%
SQLITE_DISABLE_LFS 404105 +28 +0.007%
SQLITE_ENABLE_IOTRACE 404108 +31 +0.008%
SQLITE_OMIT_AUTORESET 404143 +66 +0.016%
SQLITE_ENABLE_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 404348 +271 +0.067%
SQLITE_ENABLE_UPDATE_DELETE_LIMIT 404780 +703 +0.174%
SQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA 405198 +1121 +0.277%
SQLITE_ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY 405371 +1294 +0.320%
SQLITE_ENABLE_ATOMIC_WRITE 405426 +1349 +0.334%
SQLITE_ENABLE_MEMSYS5 406290 +2213 +0.548%
SQLITE_ENABLE_MEMSYS3 406927 +2850 +0.705%
SQLITE_OMIT_WSD 408536 +4459 +1.104%
SQLITE_ENABLE_STAT3 410352 +6275 +1.553%
SQLITE_ENABLE_RTREE 422554 +18477 +4.573%
SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 467173 +63096 +15.615%
SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS4 467185 +63108 +15.618%