Object.factory() and exe file size bloat

Fri Aug 21 04:03:00 PDT 2015

On Friday, 21 August 2015 at 08:11:37 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 21 August 2015 at 06:00:44 UTC, Mike wrote:
>> Disabling TypeInfo forces one to compromise on slicing, 
>> postblit
>
> Why slicing and postblit would need typeinfo?

See below for the source code.  Some obvious, some not.

* dynamic cast - 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-83bcb64558f947e39f87d7435709dfe7R364
* array literal - 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-bed7d2226948b1e098749985d7a60633R2353
* postblit - 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-1f51c84492753de4c1863d02e24318bbR918
* destructor - 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-1f51c84492753de4c1863d02e24318bbR1039, https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-867588d7078efd0364c256152fb5a2e7R2053
* new - 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-5960d486a42197785b9eee4ba95c6b95R5091
* AAs - 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-5960d486a42197785b9eee4ba95c6b95R10710
* slicing - 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/100/files?diff=unified#diff-5960d486a42197785b9eee4ba95c6b95R11857

etc...

Disabling TypeInfo requires quite a compromise on D's features.  
I want TypeInfo, I just don't want dead code.

Mike