Simple binary size comparison
See compile.sh for the build flags used for each language.
Results:
1388544 hello_go # go version go1.15.6 linux/amd64
919688 hello_hs # The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.8.4
471072 hello_crystal # Crystal 0.35.1 [5999ae29b] (2020-06-19)
462900 hello_v # V 0.2 30c0659
348608 hello_rust # rustc 1.49.0
190864 hello_pas # Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.0 [2020/07/27] for x86_64
88912 hello_nim # Nim Compiler Version 1.4.2 [Linux: amd64]
22144 hello_d # LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.23.0)
20592 hello_c # gcc (GCC) 10.2.1 20201016 (Red Hat 10.2.1-6)
8920 hello_asm # NASM version 2.15.03 compiled on Jul 28 2020
Stripped versions (GNU strip version 2.35-14.fc33):
1387768 hello_go
716296 hello_hs
419056 hello_v
405800 hello_crystal
285136 hello_rust
190864 hello_pas
72592 hello_nim
15544 hello_d
15016 hello_c
8488 hello_asm
Criteria: To avoid incessant "benchmark over-fitting" the code used for this benchmark is always the one readily available at Rosetta Code (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text). This means that I will not remove the "fmt" import from the Go example. This also applies to compile flags to a certain extent. You can get very far if you go down the rabbit hole, so we need to stop somewhere, a good place to stop is "what are the typical flags an application is compiled under?".
License: MIT