why simple hello world binary is ~700KB

[Michael Gnail]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Bedros,
> 
>> 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?
>>
> 
> short version: D doesn't (yet) use shared objects for the stdlib, C 
> does. At this point, that hello world has most of the stdlib in it. This 
> issue has been brought up before and something will get done about it 
> sooner or later.
> 
> 

I got a near 110K 'hello,world' on my XP with D 1.015, will there any 
way to link only the used part of stdlib in future version?