Object.factory() and exe file size bloat

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/26/15 10:50 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 26 August 2015 at 15:14, Mike via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com <mailto: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
>     <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.
>

The change was to make it so struct dtors are called by the GC.

-Steve