Re: Programs in D are huge

[Salih Dincer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 at 08:25:18 UTC, Diego wrote:
after a compilation with these flags `dmd -de -w empty.d` i 
have an executable of 869KiB
It seams huge in my opinion for an empty program
What are the best practices to reduce the size?

If compile speed and verbose error codes are not important, use 
ldc2 with the -O1 parameter. There is also strip for Linux. For 
example, a simple program:

LCD2+strip: 138.5KB.
DMD: 1.9 MB.

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