hello world in D

[Marco Leise]

Am Fri, 31 May 2013 17:58:11 +0200
schrieb "Craig Dillabaugh" <cdillaba at cg.scs.carleton.ca>:

> Do you really think that is such a big issue?  I can't remember
> the last time I looked at the size of an executable I generated.
> When I am trying to learn a new language it is really not
> something I think of as a major issue.
> 
> However, I do scientific computing, and I am not distributing
> most of the software I am developing.  If it runs fast and
> doesn't fill up my terabyte hard drive - I will never notice.  So
> I guess that makes me a little different than many posters on
> this mailing list.
> 
> I would imagine there is fair segment on the programming
> population who like me don't care too much about executable size.
>    I suppose if you are developing software for embedded systems or
> similar, then you probably watch for these things more.
> 
> Craig

Fair enough. I've seen Haskell executables for small programs
of about 10 MB. But don't forget that D is used in many areas
and if for a moment you imagine Unix being written in D with
static linking and your standard set of tools like ls,
grep, cat, ... would all be 600-1000 KiB, it would certainly
increase boot times, disk cache thrashing and program loading
times in general despite being just too much for some minimal
devices.
D can do better. There are low hanging fruit like:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7319

-- 
Marco