Dear all,
Me: a very experienced computer programmer, a newbie to D.
The test program:
import std.stdio;
void main() {
writeln("hello world!");
}
The result:
> ls -l foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Abe wheel 502064 Aug 31 18:47 foo
> file foo
foo: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
> ./foo
hello world!
Please note: 502064 bytes!!! [for the curious: 490.296875
kilobytes]
The compiler:
DMD64 D Compiler v2.066.0
Copyright (c) 1999-2014 by Digital Mars written by Walter
Bright
Documentation: http://dlang.org/
The OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8
The question: why is Hello World so frickin` huge?!?
[FYI: using "dmd -O" instead of plan "dmd" makes no difference in
the size of the executable]
— Abe
