Phobos for Review: std.buffer.scopebuffer

[Walter Bright]

On 2/9/2014 5:48 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 13:19:40 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>>> I have investiagted relevant parts of DMD for months. It simply does not work
>>> that way and changing it would require huge frontend refactoring. Inlining
>>> does not affect bloat in DMD at all. Every instance that is ever mentioned in
>>> code will always make its way to the target binary. You can trivially check it.
>>
>> It is the linker's job to purge unused code.
>
> Please show me the one who is capable of doing it. ld's --gc-sections currently
> breaks binaries and it is the only one I am aware about.

You're right. Unfortunately, D has to use existing linkers. That means we cannot 
build the compiler to require a possible, desirable, but non-existent linking 
technology.