Object.factory() and exe file size bloat

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 26 August 2015 at 15:14, Mike via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Well, I have no control over what the library maintainers in DMD want to do
in their runtime, but all is working fine without doing that in my camp.
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