The smallest Hello, World in Delphi

This is the source code:

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
program p;
begin
  Writeln ('Hello, World');
end.

Program info (Delphi 2009):

* Code size 14284 bytes
* Data size 12988 bytes
* Initial stack size 16384 bytes
* File size 21504 bytes

Benchmark:

* Using a standard .cmd batch file, this application can be started 10000 times in 77 seconds on a standard Core 2 laptop using Windows XP. That means 7,7 milliseconds per run.

A minimal GUI app:

program p;
uses
  Windows;
begin
  MessageBox (0,'Message','Hello, World',MB_OK);
end.

Program info (Delphi 2009):

* Code size 11744 bytes
* Data size 12984 bytes
* Initial stack size 16384 bytes
* File size 18432 bytes

Both run on:

* Windows 95 and later
* Windows NT 3 and later
* Linux using Wine

In order to understand the relation to other languages, you can have a look at this article about Java (translations tools here).