No tempFile() in std.file

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On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 05:09:12 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> 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?

Linker --gc-sections, though in my experience it doesn't cull 
much. Add --print-gc-sections to see what it does remove.