why does DMD compile "hello world" to about 500 _kilobytes_ on Mac OS X [x86_64]?!?

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/31/14, 8:51 PM, Abe wrote:
> Please note: 502064 bytes!!!  [for the curious: 490.296875
> kilobytes]

The real question is: why does size matter for you?

A simple "hello world" program in Go is 2 megabytes. That's four times 
the size in D. I don't know if people complain about that.

I efficiency matters most.