Size of Compiled Program

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 13:49:03 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
> When I was writing a small speed test - D versus Ruby

The smallest possible ruby program has about ~5 MB of 
dependencies, outside the operating system (the ruby runtime 
itself).

The D program has none. It carries its runtime with it, which 
makes the executable a bit larger to compensate but helps 
compatibility with other computers because the user doesn't have 
to hunt down obscure D runtime packages.