On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 01:41:51 UTC, Messenger wrote:
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

I see, thanks man. From what i understand is that this is a
"unintended" "feature" rather than a direct bug in order to make
my life easier?

I know that object files are stored in .a libraries but all this
seems too advanced for me to understand...

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