why simple hello world binary is ~700KB

[Bedros Hanounik]

Ok, I tried dmd 2.0 with the same code and got 271KB binary out of it. still huge compared to 6.5KB generated by gcc.


Bedros Hanounik Wrote:

> why when I compile this program under gdc I get 697KB of binary and when I compile similar C code in gcc I get 6.5KB (both under Linux (GCC) 4.1.2 20070214 (  (gdc 0.24, using dmd 1.020))
> 
> 
> 
> import std.stdio;
> 
> int main ()
> {
> 	writefln("Hello World!");
> 	    return 0;
> }
> 
> how can I get small footprint binaries out of any D compiler? any difference between gdc and dmd?
> 
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