No tempFile() in std.file

Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon May 15 22:09:12 PDT 2017


On Monday, 15 May 2017 at 22:38:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Personally, I think that it would be very much worth making 
> hello world larger, since hello world really doesn't matter, 
> but because there are plenty of folks checking out D who write 
> hello world and then look at the executable size, it was 
> considered unacceptable for it to get much larger.

I'm reminded of doing the same thing with C++ using streams and 
saw the size explode from 60k or so to something like 400k, for 
seemingly no good reason at all.

Hmmm while we're on the subject of size, is there a tool to strip 
out functions that are never used from the final executable?


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