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digitalmars.D - Why D eXecutables are very BIG???

reply kortex <kortex_member pathlink.com> writes:
Yes this my question
i also want to know i the inventor of D [the GREAT guy]
can make some cool optimization so the output obj and
executables are so small
SO waht about optimization for speed and size
i think this is the time for some effort on optinization
we want small fast programs
so i will sleep now and dream
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and by the way what about [throws] and insatnceof keywords
please GIVE it a try and scratch your BRAIN and i think 
you can make it

thankx
KorTex
Aug 19 2005
next sibling parent Mike Parker <aldacron71 yahoo.com> writes:
kortex wrote:
 Yes this my question
 i also want to know i the inventor of D [the GREAT guy]
 can make some cool optimization so the output obj and
 executables are so small
 SO waht about optimization for speed and size
 i think this is the time for some effort on optinization
 we want small fast programs
 so i will sleep now and dream
Currently all D executables have the garbage collector linked in. This adds a bit to the size of the executable. Hopefully one day we will be able to use the GC in shared library form, but for now it's not an option.
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 and by the way what about [throws] and insatnceof keywords
 please GIVE it a try and scratch your BRAIN and i think 
 you can make it
We don't need instanceof in D. You can try to cast an object to the type you want. The cast will return null if it cannot succeed. So the following code snippets are equivalent: if(someObj instanceof SomeType) {} // Java if(cast(SomeType)someObj !is null) {} // D Though in reality, in D, you'd probably do this: SomeType t = cast(SomeType)someObj; if(t !is null) {} And anyone asking for the throws keyword should be locked in a dungeon and forced to write code using the java.sql package. Letting that monstrosity into D is a horrible idea.
Aug 20 2005
prev sibling parent MicroWizard <MicroWizard_member pathlink.com> writes:
First of all... you should think of "optimizing" your typing ;-)
(AFAIK in english there are a lot of interesting things:
spelling, capitalized letters, punctuation, an so on. :-)

To ask aggressive questions is easy,
to do anything well is much harder.

I suggest you to browse the forum archive.
You should find a lot about this issue.

Tamas Nagy

In article <de6j92$h7p$1 digitaldaemon.com>, kortex says...
Yes this my question
i also want to know i the inventor of D [the GREAT guy]
can make some cool optimization so the output obj and
executables are so small
SO waht about optimization for speed and size
i think this is the time for some effort on optinization
we want small fast programs
so i will sleep now and dream
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
and by the way what about [throws] and insatnceof keywords
please GIVE it a try and scratch your BRAIN and i think 
you can make it

thankx
KorTex
Aug 20 2005