• Gambler (3/3) May 17 2006 I just compiled my firts D program. It is the word count program from so...
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= (14/17) May 17 2006 Looks normal... Some reasons are:
• Unknown W. Brackets (7/12) May 17 2006 Because of the gc, std.file and such, you do get a penalty initially.
• Gambler (1/5) May 18 2006 Okay, that's a good thing to hear. Thanks for replies.
• Niko Korhonen (11/14) May 17 2006 Oh please. When I compile a C++ program with GCC the executable size is

Gambler <Gambler_member pathlink.com> writes:

I just compiled my firts D program. It is the word count program from some
exapme on this website. Executable is 80kb. WC program in C is 20kb. My question
is, is such situation common with D? Or is it just std.file library?

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

Gambler wrote:

 I just compiled my firts D program. It is the word count program from some
 exapme on this website. Executable is 80kb. WC program in C is 20kb. My
question
 is, is such situation common with D? Or is it just std.file library?

Looks normal... Some reasons are:
1) the code for garbage collection
2) the static linking of Phobos lib

C++ also tends to be a bit larger than C.
(*especially* if you include the std lib)
Is the code size for D really a problem ?

--anders

PS.
For a sample I got:
  12K    hello_c
156K    hello_d
368K    hello_cpp
With GDC on Mac OS X.

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

Because of the gc, std.file and such, you do get a penalty initially.

This has been discussed in the past and it's been shown that, generally, 
D scales better as you add more code - e.g. its fixed costs are higher 
but the variable costs are lower.

Either way, for a non-trivial (or even semi-trivial) program, I doubt 
it'd be a major issue.

-[Unknown]


 I just compiled my firts D program. It is the word count program from some
 exapme on this website. Executable is 80kb. WC program in C is 20kb. My
question
 is, is such situation common with D? Or is it just std.file library?
 
 

Gambler <Gambler_member pathlink.com> writes:

Because of the gc, std.file and such, you do get a penalty initially.

This has been discussed in the past and it's been shown that, generally, 
D scales better as you add more code - e.g. its fixed costs are higher 
but the variable costs are lower.

Okay, that's a good thing to hear. Thanks for replies.

Niko Korhonen <niktheblak hotmail.com> writes:

Gambler wrote:
 I just compiled my firts D program. It is the word count program from some
 exapme on this website. Executable is 80kb. WC program in C is 20kb. My
question
 is, is such situation common with D? Or is it just std.file library?

Oh please. When I compile a C++ program with GCC the executable size is 
at least several hundred kilobytes. When I compile a Haskell program, 
it's at least one megabyte and more if I use any external libraries. In 
a Scala program I need to distribute 1.5 MB runtime library along the 

runtime libraries and instruct the client to install those into their GAC.

So I think D fares /very/ well in this regard.

-- 
Niko Korhonen
SW Developer