The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD
Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 2 16:27:28 PDT 2017
Am Tue, 02 May 2017 20:53:50 +0000
schrieb Moritz Maxeiner <moritz at ucworks.org>:
> On Tuesday, 2 May 2017 at 19:34:44 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> >
> > I see what you're doing there, but your last point is wishful
> > thinking. Dynamically linked binaries can share megabytes of
> > code. Even Phobos - although heavily templated - has proven to
> > be very amenable to sharing. For example, a "Hello world!"
> > program using `writeln()` has these sizes when compiled with
> > `dmd -O -release -inline`:
> >
> > static Phobos2 : 806968 bytes
> > dynamic Phobos2 : 18552 bytes
> >
> > That's about 770 KiB to share or 97.7% of its total size!
> > Awesome!
>
> Is all of that active code, or is some of that (statically
> knowable) never getting executed (as in could've been removed at
> compile/link time)?
I guess David gave you the answer. So it's just 95.4% of its
total size. :p
By the way, is the fully dynamic linking version possible with
ldc2 now as well ?
--
Marco
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