• Anonymous (5/5) Jan 21 2005 Hi there,
• huang yicheng (4/9) Jan 21 2005 maybe use some tools like upx?:)
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= (9/16) Jan 21 2005 The main reason a C++ program is smaller is that it uses a
• Kris (3/8) Jan 21 2005 Yes; convince Walter to remove printf() from Object.d ... it drags along...

Anonymous <Anonymous_member pathlink.com> writes:

Hi there,

Even the simplest D program "void main(){}" is compiled into 80+
kilobytes by dmd (win32) in release mode.
Is there some way to reduce the code size?

Thanks in advance.

"huang yicheng" <zergbird msn.com> writes:

maybe use some tools like upx?:)

Yicheng
"Anonymous" <Anonymous_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:csraoo$9q9$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Hi there,

 Even the simplest D program "void main(){}" is compiled into 80+
 kilobytes by dmd (win32) in release mode.
 Is there some way to reduce the code size?

 Thanks in advance.

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

Anonymous wrote:

 Even the simplest D program "void main(){}" is compiled into 80+
 kilobytes by dmd (win32) in release mode.
 Is there some way to reduce the code size?

The main reason a C++ program is smaller is that it uses a
dynamic run-time library. D uses a static "phobos" library.

If C++ is compiled with a static runtime as well, I find the
executables it generates to be a lot larger than the D ones ?

But C is still a lot smaller. Not that 80 KB is anything...

--anders

PS. Here are my sizes:

  12K    hello_c
 368K    hello_cpp
 100K    hello_d
 4.0K    hello.jar

For "Hello, World!"...

Kris <Kris_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <csraoo$9q9$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Anonymous says...
Hi there,

Even the simplest D program "void main(){}" is compiled into 80+
kilobytes by dmd (win32) in release mode.
Is there some way to reduce the code size?

Thanks in advance.

Yes; convince Walter to remove printf() from Object.d ... it drags along all the
floating point library support, just for jollies.