Program size, linking matter, and static this()

[Sean Kelly]

On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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> I'm not an expert in linkers, but my understanding is that linkers naturally remove unused object files. That, coupled with dmd's ability to break compilation output in many pseudo-object files, would take care of the matter. Truth be told, once you link in Object.factory(), bam - all classes are linked.

There's an old bugzilla entry that may apply:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=879