On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Bill Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Off topic - I wonder why executable could be so big? (Forgive my ignorance I >> am not either Tango/DWT/Derelict user) > > I dunno, but it's a frequent complaint. Maybe the linker just isn't > very good at throwing away unneeded code?
It isn't, from what I understand. Also, anything declared as a "const" is never thrown away and takes up space in the executable. Also struct and class inits, and typeinfo. It adds up.
