why simple hello world binary is ~700KB

[Gregor Richards]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bedros Hanounik wrote:
>> Ok, I tried dmd 2.0 with the same code and got 271KB binary out of it. 
>> still huge compared to 6.5KB generated by gcc.
> 
> About the smallest "hello world" binary you'll get from a recent version 
> of D is 100k.  Prior to 1.0, it was possible to get a 70k "hello world" 
> program.  In every case however, cstdlib is statically linked to the app.
> 
> 
> Sean

Um, I hope you mean the /D/ stdlib? The C stdlib is never statically linked.

In fact, glibc is incredibly resistant to being statically linked in any 
scenario.

  - Gregor Richards