Object size?

[Andy Valencia]

On Saturday, 2 March 2024 at 04:33:02 UTC, Andy Valencia wrote:
> ...But the executable size is enormous.  For 405 statements, it 
> has a text size of 712k bytes.  Whoof.  Is this normal?  I'm 
> using ldc2 version 1.30.0.

I've played with this some more; this code:

import std.stdio : writefln;

void
main(in string[] argv)
{
     writefln("%s: %d thingies\n", argv[0], 123);
}

results in 252k of text size in the executable.  It seems like 
there's some sort of combinatoric explosion going on behind the 
scenes?

Andy