why does DMD compile "hello world" to about 500 _kilobytes_ on Mac OS X [x86_64]?!?

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 17:23:03 UTC, Dan Olson wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> writes:
>
>> On 01/09/14 01:51, Abe wrote:
>>
>>> The question: why is Hello World so frickin` huge?!?
>>
>> The runtime and standard library is statically linked, 
>> compared to C
>> where it's dynamically linked. Also unnecessary symbols are not
>> stripped. DMD on OS X doesn't currently support dynamic 
>> libraries. LDC
>> has the --gc-sections flag, enabled by default. This will
>> significantly reduce the since of the binary.
>
> Another option you can use today with OS X is pass in 
> -dead_strip linker
> option to get rid of unreachable symbols. It works good with 
> LDC.
>
> using LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.14.0):
>   based on DMD v2.065 and LLVM 3.4.2

This was supposed to be enabled by default in 0.14.0 (it is 
exactly what ld --gc-sections does). Probably some issue with ld 
argument wrapper for whatever lines OSX uses?