On 2015-10-19 18:07, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> How large is Hello, word when dynamically linked? -- Andrei

When I did that back in the days with D1 and Tango it was 16KB. Same as a C Hello World.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 16:02:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-10-17 13:28, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> Yes, it's still linked statically by default, at least with DMD. I don't
>> know why this wasn't changed yet
>
> 1. It makes it easier to distribute binaries since most computers won't have a Phobos and druntime installed
It's not too complicated to deliver those two files in addition to the executable
>
> 2. There's no guaranteed ABI compatibly between different release of D
That it the really bad part - if I were to ship the librarys only once, I would prefer it. But pretty much every time? NO.