dmd -lib and executable size (+10 MB)

[Michael P.]

Moritz Warning Wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:53:07 +0800, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> 
> > I got curious and wrote a batch file to test the exe sizes for all
> > versions of dmd.exe in my local repository. The D file only has "void
> > main() {}".
> > 
> > There's clearly a jump in filesize since v1.032, when the size went from
> > 79KB to 124KB.
> > 
> > Here's the complete result:
> [..]
> > Digital Mars D Compiler v1.033
> > 124.444  t.exe
> 
> Can anyone confirm that this is resolved now with dmd v1.034?
> My test shows that the binary size is back to 81KB (stripped).

I didn't test compiling with just void main() { }, but when I re-compiled some of my work, the executable size went down from 1.033. So I would say it got resolved for the most part.