On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 07:36:44 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 06:07:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
The Windows version of dmd 2.067 seems to do a better job,
with the executable coming in at 144 KB for the 32-bit version
linked with optlink and 270 KB for the 64-bit version linked
with the MS linker.
Sorry, I measured with the official release of dmd 2.066.0 on
Windows 7 x64 and miswrote the version as 2.067.
Oh, I also wanted to say that in this day and age of fast
internet connections and large disk drives, a basic runtime size
cost of less than half a MB is nothing and not worth worrying
about. My smartphone model that came out two years ago has 64 GB
of space, I have trouble finding HD videos to fill it up with. :)
We should try to minimize binary size, simply because all
optimizations are helpful, but it's not a high priority. If
you're trying to use D in the embedded space, as Adam and others
have, presumably you know what you're doing and can hack it down
yourself.
