D speed compared to C++

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 18 18:33:54 PDT 2008


"Dan" <murpsoft at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:frpnmc$24u0$1 at digitalmars.com...

>
> 3) Startup for D is slower even for hello world because D statically links 
> the entirety of phobos and the GC even if you don't ever use them.  This 
> equates to about 80kb of bloat - so it's still dramatically better than 
> Java or C#, but still not "correct".

If it linked in all of phobos, your programs would start at around 1MB.  It 
doesn't link in all of phobos. 





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