Rikki Cattermole wrote: > How exactly is a D version more bulky then C? > After all everything C can do, D can do with a very similar syntax.
Source-code wise D is much leaner than C, obviously, but object-code wise it is *huge* even with dynamically linking Phobos: The binary size of compiling my C version is 20271 and that of the D version with exact same functionality is 1031061. I thought maybe it's because I'm using a few ctRegex-es and that's getting included into the source code, but using ordinary regex actually increases the size to 1112343. I suppose 1 MB is not a big deal these days, and if I cared about quick programming and not worry about buffer overflows, I have to sacrifice *something*, but still comparing to C, I can't help but feel that most of that 1 MB is functionality that the program never uses but I'm not expert enough to find out. If DMD had something like -fdata-sections -ffunction- sections, passing --gc-sections might be able to slim that down, I dunno... -- Shriramana Sharma, Penguin #395953
