On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 17:23:03 UTC, Dan Olson wrote:
Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> writes:
On 01/09/14 01:51, Abe wrote:
The question: why is Hello World so frickin` huge?!?
The runtime and standard library is statically linked,
compared to C
where it's dynamically linked. Also unnecessary symbols are not
stripped. DMD on OS X doesn't currently support dynamic
libraries. LDC
has the --gc-sections flag, enabled by default. This will
significantly reduce the since of the binary.
Another option you can use today with OS X is pass in
-dead_strip linker
option to get rid of unreachable symbols. It works good with
LDC.
using LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.14.0):
based on DMD v2.065 and LLVM 3.4.2
This was supposed to be enabled by default in 0.14.0 (it is
exactly what ld --gc-sections does). Probably some issue with ld
argument wrapper for whatever lines OSX uses?
