Re: The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 2 May 2017 at 19:34:44 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:

I see what you're doing there, but your last point is wishful 
thinking. Dynamically linked binaries can share megabytes of 
code. Even Phobos - although heavily templated - has proven to 
be very amenable to sharing. For example, a "Hello world!" 
program using `writeln()` has these sizes when compiled with 
`dmd -O -release -inline`:

     static Phobos2 : 806968 bytes
    dynamic Phobos2 :  18552 bytes

That's about 770 KiB to share or 97.7% of its total size! 
Awesome!

Is all of that active code, or is some of that (statically 
knowable) never getting executed (as in could've been removed at 
compile/link time)?