why simple hello world binary is ~700KB

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Reply to Bedros,

> why when I compile this program under gdc I get 697KB of binary and
> when I compile similar C code in gcc I get 6.5KB (both under Linux
> (GCC) 4.1.2 20070214 (  (gdc 0.24, using dmd 1.020))
> 
> import std.stdio;
> 
> int main ()
> {
> writefln("Hello World!");
> return 0;
> }
> how can I get small footprint binaries out of any D compiler? any
> difference between gdc and dmd?
> 

short version: D doesn't (yet) use shared objects for the stdlib, C does. 
At this point, that hello world has most of the stdlib in it. This issue 
has been brought up before and something will get done about it sooner or 
later.