Starting D with a project in mind.

[Andrew]

Hallelujah - it's built ! Thanks Stefan for the link to the ARM 
fork, that and a pile of messing about with float ABI types and I 
managed to get it built and installed on my Cubieboard A20 (ARM7 
debian distro).

So now I compile Hello World and I get a 2MB executable ! This 
compares with 8kb for the same in C. Have I done something wrong 
? I can understand that it has GC and UTF8 with bounds checking 
so I was expecting maybe 100kb. Does it need to be stripped or 
optimised in some way ? Surely only the used functions get linked 
in.

My current C code has an embedded web server, json libraries and 
mongodb client and it's 80kb - what can I expect for the same 
thing in D ?

Thanks

Andrew