Big executable?

[so]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:39:41 +0300, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2010-10-06 20:01, Walter Bright wrote:
>> so wrote:
>>> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:40:11 +0300, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes, making Phobos a shared library rather than statically linking it
>> will pretty much resolve this problem.
>
> Of course when Phobos is a dynamic library you would probably need to  
> distributed it as well and then you will have same size again or even  
> larger.
>

Eh?

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