Am Fri, 11 Sep 2015 05:36:27 -0700 schrieb Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com>:
> Now, as to why the gdc binary is so large, I don't know. My guess is > that it has something to do with the debug symbols. You could try > building with -g or -gc to see how that affects the dmd-generated > binary. The libphobos shipped with the GDC binaries or with a self-compiled GDC does contain debug information (default GCC policy IIRC?). That combined with static linking leads to huge executables. A simple 'strip' command reduces the executable size.
