Our template emission strategy is broken

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:08:08 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Kenji and Walter have been working on improving the template 
> emission strategy during the last couple of releases, i.e. 
> whether a template instance is emitted to a given object file 
> or not. Nevertheless, I've been continually hearing complaints 
> from various people with large D code bases (our commercial 
> users and some of the more complex open source projects) that 
> they have problems compiling their code doing anything else 
> than an all-at-once build.
>
> [...]

I've had problems compiling part of my code as a static library 
and linking to a file that used a template mixin that in turn did 
compile-time reflection. The mangling was different between the 
two and I had linker errors. It was weird and frustrating, and I 
had to go back to compiling all at once, which is slower.

Atila