• gedumer (1/1) Jun 01 2007 Why are exe's so large with D? 112K for Hello World seems a bit high. I ...
• Sean Kelly (7/8) Jun 01 2007 TypeInfo, largely. Executable size has come up a few times in the past....
• BCS (4/7) Jun 01 2007 IIRC phobos ends up being staticly linked and (I think) has a fare bit o...
• gedumer (2/3) Jun 01 2007 Thanks... I did manage to track many of the other posts down re: EXE siz...
• Jarrett Billingsley (7/14) Jun 01 2007 Well if it's any consolation, it's a fixed overhead. I doubt that most ...

gedumer <gedumer yahoo.com> writes:

Why are exe's so large with D? 112K for Hello World seems a bit high. I
compiled it with no debug info and -O optimization.

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

gedumer wrote:
 Why are exe's so large with D? 112K for Hello World seems a bit high. I
compiled it with no debug info and -O optimization.

TypeInfo, largely.  Executable size has come up a few times in the past. 
  Read the archives for posts by "kris" to track them down, both here 
and in either D.bugs or D.announce (I can't remember where the other 
threads were located).  If it helps, "hello.exe" used to be around 70k. 
  The jump above 100k occurred within the past six months.


Sean

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

Reply to gedumer,

 Why are exe's so large with D? 112K for Hello World seems a bit high.
 I compiled it with no debug info and -O optimization.
 

IIRC phobos ends up being staticly linked and (I think) has a fare bit of 
stuff that under C ends up being part of the C standard library, which is 
offten in a .dll/.so

gedumer <gedumer yahoo.com> writes:

gedumer Wrote:

 Why are exe's so large with D? 112K for Hello World seems a bit high. I
compiled it with no debug info and -O optimization.

Thanks... I did manage to track many of the other posts down re: EXE size. I
suppose I now understand the reason. I wander if it's a matter of further
development to ultimately reduce the exe's or will they continue to grow? Only
time will tell, I guess.

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"gedumer" <gedumer yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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 gedumer Wrote:

 Why are exe's so large with D? 112K for Hello World seems a bit high. I 
 compiled it with no debug info and -O optimization.

 Thanks... I did manage to track many of the other posts down re: EXE size. 
 I suppose I now understand the reason. I wander if it's a matter of 
 further development to ultimately reduce the exe's or will they continue 
 to grow? Only time will tell, I guess.

Well if it's any consolation, it's a fixed overhead.  I doubt that most of 
the time you're going to be making programs as small as a hello world, so 
the ~100K overhead won't mean much when your EXE is 5MB.  It's the 
consequence of using a language that provides you with useful capabilities 
;)