About compiler memory consumption

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 05:12:26PM +0100, bearophile wrote:
> Puming:
[...]
> >but a simple binary in vibe.d yields a ~12MB file,
> >it's somewhat slow to upload it.
> 
> There are programs to compress binaries a lot.

Take a look at UPX: http://upx.sourceforge.net/

In my own projects, a typical D program is easily 5-10MB, or, if it's
template-heavy, 15-20MB. But if I run 'strip' on the executable and then
run 'upx' on it, I can quite easily get it down to less than 1MB.

You won't be able to debug it, of course, since there would be no
symbols, etc., left, but if you're deploying it to your production
server anyway, presumably you've already debugged it beforehand, so this
shouldn't be a problem.


T

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