Pay as you go is really going to make a difference

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On Wednesday, 22 January 2020 at 10:38:54 UTC, aberba wrote:
>
>> Just look at a simple - statically linked - "hello world" DMD 
>> compilation result,
>> how many C64 times floppy discs (180KByte) you would need to 
>> store?
>
> That's the issue I wanted to address with the thread. Why is a 
> simple 5 lines of code compiling to such a large binary. That's 
> a typical example of bloat.

You have the same problem with C++ if you statically link the C 
and C++ library, then it will easily become over 2 MB. Many don't 
care because default is that you dynamically link those libraries 
in C++.

Problem is that D depends on the C library which can be 
statically linked and then it also becomes bigger. Even if you 
use just a very small portion of it, it has a tendency you just 
include everything anyway.

Many languages suffer from the C lib dependency which is kind of 
suboptimal. It is time to depreciate that dependency.