compiled code file size

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 10:29:35 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Lot of code bloat comes from stuff which is unnecessary in the 
> big picture but compiler has to means to decide it during 
> compilation. There is no real reason why
>
> `[1, 2, 3].map!(a => a*2)().reduce!((a, b) => a + b)(0)`
>
> can't be reduce to single loop and inlined, leaving no traces 
> of actual std.algorithm usage.

There's no theoretical reason, but plenty of practical reasons. 
bearophile linked to a talk by Chandler Carruth that explains the 
difficulties encountered by inlining optimisers.