dmd -betterC

[ixid via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 09:21:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/20/2017 2:00 AM, ixid wrote:
>> How far away from a purely additive, pay for what we use 
>> situation are we? It would seem like D should be BetterC out 
>> of the box, without needing any switches and as you add and 
>> use specific features and libraries it builds from that.
>
> As long as the compiler supports separate compilation, it has 
> to emit certain information that may or may not be used by 
> other modules.
>
> For example, the list of imported modules, which is used by the 
> startup code to determine the order of static construction. The 
> compiler cannot know which of those will have static 
> constructors and which won't.

How much of that could be made lazy?