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.
-- /Jacob Carlborg