Big executable?

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On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:40:11 +0300, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2010-10-06 08:12, Andre Tampubolon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just started learning D (my background is C, anyway).
>>
>> I compiled this simple code using DMD 2.049 (dmd -O -release test1.d) :
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>> writefln("%s World", "Hello");
>> }
>>
>> The final executable size is about 300 KB. Isn't that a bit huge,
>> considering the same code compiled using C or Pascal compiler will give
>> smaller executable? So I tried to look at the *.map, and apparently the
>> D runtime pulls a lot of stuff. I am just wondering, anyway.
>
> You are aware of that C is (almost always) dynamically linked with the  
> standard and runtime library but D (usually) is not? Using D1 and Tango  
> on Mac OS X (which supports dynamic linking of the standard library)  
> gives an executable of the size 16 KB if I recall correctly.
>

Which is the next thing Walter will be working on after this 64bit  
business.

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