On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:41:30PM +0200, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 16:20:34 UTC, Duke Normandin wrote:
> >I'm re-visiting the D language. I've compared the file sizes of 2 executables - 1 is compiled C code using gcc; the other is D code using dmd.
> >
> >helloWorld.d => helloWorld.exe = 146,972 bytes
> >ex1hello.c => ex1-hello.exe = 5,661 bytes
> >
> >Why such a huge difference???
> 
> You can upload a .map file here, and see what's taking up all the
> space:
> http://thecybershadow.net/d/mapview/

Ah, you beat me to it. :-)


T

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On Sep 21, 2013, at 8:49 AM, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 September 2013 21:34, Temtaime <temtaime@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you saying about passing a function via pointer to winapi for example?
> The logic is simple: if someone gets function address, then function cannot be stripped. It's logic of all c++ compilers.
> 
> Totally OT, but every single time I read your name when you post, I can't help but start hearing lines from Terry Prachett's Hogfather in my head…

Same here.

On Sep 20, 2013 5:40 PM, "Temtaime" <temtaime@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> DMD likes the size.
> When compiling, compiler may use GBs of RAM.
> In resulting executable there is no dead/unused code elimination.

Three random sentences that are not at all factual.  :)

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