Greenwashing

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/27/20 8:59 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 00:51:52 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:

>> Separate compilation may be a lot slower if inference must be done for 
>> function bodies.
> 
> Extremely unlikely - it already does those checks to confirm the 
> annotation anyway!

This isn't something I thought of. I am surprised if the compiler 
semantically analyzes only-imported functions. In fact, I'm almost sure 
this doesn't happen (based on D's track record with unittests).

But in practice much of D is actually templates already. I doubt this 
would have a tremendous impact.

In any case, this COULD be mitigated via some sort of intermediate form, 
or .di files.

-Steve