On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 16:20:34 UTC, Duke Normandin
wrote:
I'm re-visiting the D language. I've compared the file sizes of
2 executables - 1 is compiled C code using gcc; the other is D
code using dmd.
helloWorld.d => helloWorld.exe = 146,972 bytes
ex1hello.c => ex1-hello.exe = 5,661 bytes
Why such a huge difference???
Duke
You are doing it wrong.
```
$ gcc hello.c; ls -lah a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dicebot users 4.9K Sep 20 18:47 a.out
```
vs
```
$ gcc -static hello.c; ls -lah a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dicebot users 717K Sep 20 18:48 a.out
```
(C standard library is dynamically linked by default)
So actual relative difference is about 2x - quite big but not as
huge. It mostly comes from additional D runtime stuff.
