> On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 22:45:01 UTC, Parke wrote: >> When I write "hello world" in C, the executable is 8,519 bytes. >> When I write "hello world" in D, the executable is 100 times larger: >> 865,179 bytes.
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > You mean the examples from the blog post > https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/ give you 800kb > executables? No, I was talking about the below version of "hello world" that I compiled several weeks prior to reading the blog post. import std.stdio; void main() { writeln("Hello, world!"); } The above D code yields 865,179 bytes. Below is the version from the blog post: import core.stdc.stdio; extern (C) int main( int argc, char** argv ) { printf ( "hello world\n" ); return 0; } The above D code yields 445,244 bytes when compiled with -release. The above D code yields 445,187 bytes when compiled with -release -betterC. DMD64 D Compiler 2.075.0-b2 on Linux on x86-64. Still 50 times larger than C. Perhaps it would be smaller with a newer version of DMD. But my original question was about what you (Kagamin) called "intermediate D". I was trying to understand what "intermediate D" is, and whether or not I could use "intermediate D" (whatever it is) to produce small(er) executables. -Parke
