whats happening to my binary file size?

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On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 02:16:37 UTC, Israel wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 01:41:51 UTC, Messenger wrote:
>> Conjecture: your binary has its imports statically linked in, 
>> and your linker doesn't remove unused code (--gc-sections).
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879
>
> I see, thanks man. From what i understand is that this is a
> "unintended" "feature" rather than a direct bug in order to make
> my life easier?
>
> I know that object files are stored in .a libraries but all this
> seems too advanced for me to understand...

You could try using LDC. The latest version 0.14.0 already uses 
--gc-sections automatically. (But it is based on DMD 2.065, so 
you cannot (yet) use all of the newest features like @nogc that 
are in DMD 2.066.)