My first D program

[bearophile]

Shriramana Sharma:

> However I am somewhat taken aback to see the file size -- 
> 335KiB for a
> simple Hello World? The equivalent C/C++ programs compiled with 
> Clang
> without any -O options produce binaries of less than 10K!

On Windows32 DMD produces binaries for small programs that are 
often half the size of binaries generated by similar small C++ 
programs compiled with G++ (about 300+ against 700+).

D has a garbage collector, runtime type introspection (module 
info, type info, etc), run-time built-in operations on dynamic 
arrays (concat, append), associative arrays and some of their 
operations, a sort (but probably the built-in sort and reverse 
will be deprecated and later removed), exceptions, and more. All 
that needs space that's absent in the C++ binary.

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Regan Heath:

> The D standard library is currently statically linked.  This 
> will change shortly/eventually.

And then you will need the GC somewhere to run it :-) Both static 
and dynamic linking have their advantages and disadvantages. I 
think Go has a storng preference for static linking.

Bye,
bearophile