On 13 September 2013 14:42, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> wrote: > On 13/09/13 15:36, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: >> >> Tried it. It reduces 12 MB executables to 11 MB -- but if I manually >> exclude >> the module responsible for the big data, executable sizes fall to 2 MB. > > > Sorry, I'm talking nonsense. I managed to accidentally build using ldmd2, > which was responsible for the small executable sizes. The +10 MB executable > size seems to be entirely down to gdc. >
I expect this is because the phobos/druntime libraries shipped with dmd are (a) without debugging symbols and (b) stripped. If you were to strip libphobos after installing gdc, then you would see a significant drop in size. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
