Our template emission strategy is broken

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 11 November 2015 at 17:25, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 11/11/2015 08:08 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Regarding the top-level issue. Walter and I agree it's an important
> problem, and also that plugging holes as they start leaking (which is what
> we've been doing so far) is not going to work well in the long haul.
>
> A redesign of template instantiation is necessary, and Walter needs to be
> fully involved in it. However, please give it time. Walter is currently
> working full time on catching C++ exceptions from D code, and as we all
> know the best way of getting many things done is to do one thing at a given
> time and do it fully. It should take him at least two weeks' time to get
> there.
>
>
Please no.  I've done my fair share of investigating this in libunwind, and
it just isn't worth it.
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