On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 23:36:44 UTC, Israel wrote:
I wasnt paying any attention to the file size of my binaries
when
i started using D.
My first program is simple and compiles at 486kb, which
honestly,
is kind of absurd but anyways, after i start adding other
imports
it ran all the way up to 4.5mb.
what i want to ask is, what exactly is happening to my binary
when all i do is import various modules?
Conjecture: your binary has its imports statically linked in, and
your linker doesn't remove unused code (--gc-sections).
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879
