Few ideas to reduce template bloat

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> After reading that paper I can say that D compilers can start doing the
> simpler thing: recognizing instantiations of a function template that are
> compiled to the same asm code, and keep only one of them. The Microsoft
> compiler seems to do that already.

Because of separate compilation, that can't be done with the compiler in the 
general case. The linker can, though.