catchy phrase for this idiom?

[BCS]

Reply to Denis,

> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:56:48 +0300, BCS <ao at pathlink.com> wrote:
> 
>> Under some conditions (I never figured out the details) you end up
>> being  forced to do that anyway. However in heavy code you can
>> literally get MB  of meta data generated for struct that are never
>> actually used for  anything.
>> 
> These should be stripped by linked, shoudn't they? That's a separate
> issue if linker doesn't do it properly.
> 

That would help some, but they cause problems both that the link level (extra 
IO) and the the compile time level (I have seen dmd spend *minutes* generating 
the meta data.