Bloat in Executable

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On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 03:58:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
>
> It is the statically linked C library. Note that if you remove 
> the call to printf, the size is slashed in half.
>
> Windows traditionally didn't do a system-wide C lib, but rather 
> the various compiler vendors would do their own. To keep this 
> from being a big pain for the end user, static linking can be 
> employed as it apparently is with Digital Mars.
>

Thanks Adam. I understand better now.