D and the demo scene

[Sean Kelly]

Mike wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:21 +0200, Moritz Warning 
> <moritzwarning at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> Would be nice thought.
>> But the D compilers produce quite big programs (It doesn't have to be
>> that way). It's often a no go for the demo scene.
> 
> (I think) the bulk of demos is done without size limitations, the 64k 
> limitations are seperate disciplines; in any case, the demo guys will 
> figure out how to produce 4k programs with D anyway :)

The .exe size is mostly related to the TypeInfo data, which is used by 
the GC among other things.  The new -lib switch in recent versions of 
DMD is intended to help with this issue a bit.


Sean