Object.factory() and exe file size bloat

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 22 August 2015 at 20:14:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I'm not sure how export would help on Linux.

One of the use cases for export on Linux would be to set the ELF 
visibility based on it. Emitting all the symbols with default 
visibility, like we currently do, leads to size and load time 
problems with large libraries. Big C++ projects are plagued 
regularly by this (cf. "-fvisibility=hidden").

  — David