Why are binaries/executables so large on Windows?

[Stewart Gordon]

"Tristam MacDonald" <swiftcoder at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> But 70k is an impressive overhead for an empty main function... And how 
> will an executable packer help when most of them are incompatible with 
> DMD?

The only executable packers I know of work directly with EXEs.  So why 
should they care what compiler was used?

Stewart.