Executable size

[Neal Alexander]

terranium wrote:
> Neal Alexander Wrote:
> 
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> Once D is natively using DLL/.so to store the runtime, executable sizes 
>>> should go way down.
>>>
>>> -Steve 
>>>
>>>
>> In any case, D's runtime bloat is pretty much on par with OCaml and 
>> Haskell/GHC(SplitObjs).
> 
> I don't believe D runtime can make any bloat, even whole Phobos is 1MB - how it can become 14MB?

Its not Phobos. "Hello world" in D, OCaml, and haskell/ghc are all 
around 300kb (+-100k)

DWT or GTK can easily add 10mb to a distro. There may be D bindings for 
lightweight GUI toolkits like FLTK (http://www.fltk.org/) or something - 
   i dunno, i never bothered checking. Even if theres no bindings, you 
can always use some WYSIWYG tool to generate a C skeleton to plug your D 
code into.


And on a side note: last time i native compiled a quick graph 
visualization GUI in java the dependencies were like 50mb heh.