Object.factory() and exe file size bloat

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 22 August 2015 at 10:11:24 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

>> A MUCH better solution:
>>
>> T[] _d_arrayliteral(T)(size_t length)
>>
>> Also, isn't the typeinfo now stored by the GC so it can call 
>> the dtor? Perhaps that is done in the filling of the array 
>> literal, but I would be surprised as this is a GC feature.
>>
>>
> I only looked at 2.066.1, the runtime implementation did not 
> pass the typeinfo to the GC.

_d_arrayliteralTX eventually calls structTypeInfoSize() which, 
according to 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/rt/lifetime.d#L214, is used to determine the size of TypeInfo so it can be stored by the GC, as Steven said.

Mike