Getting rid of global cdtors

[Timon Gehr]

On 18.06.20 04:02, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/14/20 2:53 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Getting rid of static cdtors is a good goal for druntime and standard 
>> library. Modules that need initialization should do so lazily upon 
>> first use.
>>
>> I picked a low-hanging fruit in 
>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/7529 - there is no need at all to 
>> initialize and test pointers to function in Posix.
>>
>> Could a Windows engineer help with the Windows part? It's a bit more 
>> involved - the pointers to functions should be initialized upon first 
>> use in a Singleton manner, and atexit(WSACleanup) needs to be inserted 
>> right after the call to WSAStartup.
> 
> I needed to close that PR and it would be great if someone could pick it 
> up. I don't have the time to set up a Windows platform. Would be glad to 
> take a look over the PR if someone would like to adopt it.
> 
> As I noted in the PR, eliminating static cdtors is key to lean and mean 
> executables on a pay-as-you-go basis.
> 

What about this? https://dlang.org/library/object/object.factory.html
ProtoObject?