[dub] Size of executable

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 09:33:49 UTC, Chris wrote:
> I usually use dub to create and build projects. I built one of 
> the projects with dub and then by hand with dmd[1] passing all 
> the files etc. Turned out that the executable built with dub 
> was 1.4 MB whereas the one built by hand was only 807 kB. Why 
> is that?

dub compiles and links every file in the source folder whether 
it's used or not. Whereas with dmd or rdmd you only compile and 
link the files you actually use.