Why 16Mib static array size limit?

[Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 August 2016 at 00:20:32 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:12:25 +0000, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>> But doing so would be incorrect if D doesn't provide strong 
>> aliasing guarantees. And if D does provide these guarantees, 
>> we won't need to do this manually.
>
> The language can analyze all code that affects a local variable 
> in many cases. You don't always need the language to guarantee 
> it's impossible if the compiler can see that the user isn't 
> doing anything funky.

That's right. But for Ali's code, the compiler is clearly not 
smart enough.