On 2010-10-06 08:12, Andre Tampubolon wrote:
Hi,I just started learning D (my background is C, anyway). I compiled this simple code using DMD 2.049 (dmd -O -release test1.d) : import std.stdio; void main() { writefln("%s World", "Hello"); } The final executable size is about 300 KB. Isn't that a bit huge, considering the same code compiled using C or Pascal compiler will give smaller executable? So I tried to look at the *.map, and apparently the D runtime pulls a lot of stuff. I am just wondering, anyway.
You are aware of that C is (almost always) dynamically linked with the standard and runtime library but D (usually) is not? Using D1 and Tango on Mac OS X (which supports dynamic linking of the standard library) gives an executable of the size 16 KB if I recall correctly.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
