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

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 06.09.2014 02:03, schrieb Ary Borenszweig:
> 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.

Well, the Go guys are now trying to minimize the footprint of static 
compilation.

The many places 2 MB is a lot.

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Paulo