DIP56 - inlining

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/4/2015 3:08 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> The compiler will still have to
> generate a complete function which takes up space in the object
> file.

Space in the object file is not important, space in the executable is. It's the 
linker's job to remove unreferenced functions (dmd places each function in its 
own section for that and other reasons). If the linker falls down on that job, 
an alternative is to use dmd to generate a library, where it will generate one 
object in the library per function. Then, the linker will only pull objects out 
of the library that are actually referenced.