Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 22:11:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I vaguely recall somebody mentioning a while back that 
> range-based code
> is poorly optimized because compilers weren't designed to 
> recognize
> such patterns before. I wonder if there are ways for the 
> compiler to
> recognize range primitives and apply special optimizations to 
> them.
>
> I do find, though, that gdc -O3 generally tends to do a pretty 
> good job
> of reducing range-based code to near-minimal assembly. Sadly, 
> dmd is
> changing too fast for gdc releases to catch up with the latest 
> and
> greatest, so I haven't been using gdc very much recently. :-(
>

That was me, specifically for LLVM (I don't know much about GCC's 
innards). Hopefully, this is being worked (as it also impact 
C++'s stdlib).