How to stop DMD from exploding the executable file size?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 12:51:09AM +0000, ryuukk_ via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Just look: https://i.imgur.com/5JheSIA.png
> 
> 5mb for DMD
> 
> 200kb for LDC
> 
> Both release build
> 
> It is very sad, what is walter doing?

Somebody already pointed out, it's LDC's linker that's eliminating the
excess weight.  You can prove this yourself by using `dmd -c` and then
linking the object files yourself, supplying additional LTO options to
discard unreferenced sections.


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