Compiler: Size of generated executable file

[KennyTM~]

On Jan 13, 10 10:57, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:09:01PM -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> In Linux, using a distribution, you have a pretty good change that dynamic
>> libraries are used by more than one program.
>
> That's actually not true. I ran a program on my system a long time ago that
> ran ldd against everything in /bin, /lib, and all the various variants.
>
> http://arsdnet.net/lib-data-sorted.txt
>
> Notice that the *vast* majority of those libraries are used by only a
> handful of binaries on the system. Half has five or fewer users.
>

The data is flawed. For example, libtiff appears as 
/usr/lib/./libtiff.so.3 (2 uses) and /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (70 uses). 
Moreover, as long as there are ≥2 uses it's disk usage is already lower 
than static linking.

> This is slightly biased by not counting dynamically loaded things; ldd
> only does statically requested shared libs. But I doubt that changes things
> significantly.
>
>
> Also note how at the bottom of the list, users go up quickly - the basic
> system libraries are used by a great many apps. Most everything else is
> pretty specialized though.
>
> I don't remember where I put the source to the program that generated that
> list, but it isn't too hard to recreate; it just counts references that
> ldd outputs.
>
>> typeinfo/template bloat too to analyze in the executables bloat
>
> I'm sure the linker  will eventually take care of templates.
>
> As to typeinfo, does D need it anymore? It seems like templates obsolete
> most the typeinfo now.
>
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