File size of exe: DMD vs LDC

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 20:06:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/9/2016 11:48 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>
> Thanks. At least the deh sections are a non-issue now that DMD 
> generates Dwarf exception handling tables.

I've compiled the same code[1] with dmd v2.071.0 (release build) 
and now the size has grown to 7.1 MB. It's 7.0 MB with dmd v2.070 
(release build).

[1] Same, except for the changes I had to make to adapt it to the 
new import system (`static import` etc.)