Criteria for 1.0 (was: Re: If D becomes a failure, what's the key reason, do you think?)

[Sean Kelly]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Yup.  It would be a trivial change to internal/dmain2.  I'll probably 
>> do it in Ares in the next few days, just to have it as an option.
> 
> This not being my specialty, I have to ask the dumb question:
> 
> does all this mean that
> 
>  - helloworld could be only a few kB

Probably.  Though dealing with DLLs is deceptive because the application 
would consume far more memory than just the few KB indicated by the EXE 
size.

>  - on a machine where D programs are run almost continuously, the 
> startup time of a D app would be vastly quicker

I don't think so, because (I believe) there would still be a separate GC 
instance per app.

>  - total memory consumption of the D programs would be much reduced

Assuming a single shared GC, yes.


Sean