Would you trade 0.1% in performance for a better debugging experience?

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/18/2014 07:49 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
> I refuse to let the fact that we package every platform's download into
> one zip to be some sort of argument :) DMD is the only distribution that
> I've ever seen do this.

We're shifting away from this, there are per-platform zips and 
installers now.
See a preview of the new download page.
https://dlang.dawg.eu/download.html

>> That comes out to over 200 MB. Might be bigger due to debug builds of
>> Phobos taking more space.
>
> I have 0 problem making the user choose his configuration at download
> time. Each download should be 10MB, possibly x3 for debug and stack
> frame builds.

We could provide additional phobos libraries for downloading.
Problem is, that it's currently fairly hard to switch your phobos library.
There is a plan to improve the config file processing to make such 
things easier.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7044