Under 40 kilobytes! If you do the bare minimum you can get down
to about 1 KB, but at that point, you're actually writing in
mostly (inline) assembly rather than D. The code in the link
though supports a majority (though certainly not all) of D's
features.
Agreed 100%. But newcomers don't often get that far down the
chain of thought, they just see a huge exe and wonder WTF! :)
Indeed.
Do you really think that is such a big issue? I can't remember
the last time I looked at the size of an executable I generated.
When I am trying to learn a new language it is really not
something I think of as a major issue.
However, I do scientific computing, and I am not distributing
most of the software I am developing. If it runs fast and
doesn't fill up my terabyte hard drive - I will never notice. So
I guess that makes me a little different than many posters on
this mailing list.
I would imagine there is fair segment on the programming
population who like me don't care too much about executable size.
I suppose if you are developing software for embedded systems or
similar, then you probably watch for these things more.
Craig
