compiled code file size

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 17:26:29 UTC, Duke Normandin 
wrote:
> Now that I know _why_ , is there a way to shave tons off those 
> executables? Any optimization possible?

Yes, you can get D programs down very small - I've gone as low as 
3 KB before on Linux (100% statically linked, doesn't even depend 
on the C runtime), where the executables are generally a little 
larger than on Windows.

BUT, the runtime code is there for a reason. Stripping it out 
means you lose D features, can't use most D libraries, and have 
to know druntime's implementation fairly well.

So it isn't something you really want to do.


Why is size important to you though? 140 KB really isn't bad, and 
will probably shrink to a small percentage of the total once you 
write a real program that's more than just hello world.