Bloat with std.(string.)format?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 15:17:21 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 13:42:15 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 12:49:03 UTC, John Colvin 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> That's up to date enough now. Is it stable, though?
>
> Reasonably so in my testing, but expect more bugs than in a 
> full release.
>
>> For version 2.067.1 it took a long time this time. Maybe we 
>> should focus some of our efforts on LDC and GCD being up to 
>> date faster.
>
> It would be great to have more people working on them, yes.

I suppose it's an area most people (including myself) shy away 
from. I know next to nothing about compiler implementation.