C++17 cannot beat D surely

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/06/2017 11:06 AM, Vittorio Romeo wrote:
> Could someone clarify why the generated assembly for
> 
> void main() @nogc {
>      import std.algorithm;
>      enum a = [3, 1, 2, 0]; // inferred to be int[]
>      enum b = sort(a);
>      static assert(b[0] == 0);
> }
> 
> is 1380 lines with ldc 1.3.0 (-O3 -release -betterC -flto=full)?
> You can see the result on godbolt here:
> https://godbolt.org/g/BNRnO9
> 
> It's kind of surprising compared to C++'s 2 lines:
> https://godbolt.org/g/vXrxaY

_Dmain is exactly 2 instructions, so nope equivalent :)
The linker isn't stripping out unused symbols however (from what I can 
tell).