On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100, Adam D. Ruppe
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 14:48:12 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
You will get a similar size (or greater) if you statically link the
stdc library.
That's not necessarily true because static linking only pulls functions
that are actually used by the program....
even though I just tried gcc hello.c -static, and got a beefy 600 KB
binary out of it, so maybe it is more intertwined than I thought!
It is a bit surprising isn't it.
Eventually D will support dynamically linking to Phobos.
I think it is worth remembering that this doesn't actually reduce the
size. In fact, it will increase it since the dynamic linked library
needs all functions. The phobos.dll will be probably two or three
megabytes, and if you are distributing a D app, you'll still have to
offer that file... and now have the hassle of dependency management.
Dynamic linking might look less scary when your ls sees 20 KB instead of
600 but it doesn't really change anything substantial.
Agreed 100%. But newcomers don't often get that far down the chain of
thought, they just see a huge exe and wonder WTF! :) The short answer is
"it's statically linked" and the longer answer is.. as you say, there are
pros/cons to each and we have issues in D around the GC and how that would
work in a dynamically linked situation IIRC.
R
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