[dmd-internals] 5th Biweekly Sprint Planning​

[Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals]

On 09/09/2015 04:06 PM, Martin Nowak via dmd-internals wrote:
> On 09/09/2015 09:50 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> That sounds reasonable but I must disagree. For one thing, the wiggling
>> is going a lot more often on the increase than on the decrease.
>
> We know very well where the bloat comes from (ModuleInfos, class
> references, eager template analysis) and unless someone tackles those
> bigger issues, the small stuff really doesn't matter that much.
> In the meantime we're reverting useful code b/c hello world must not
> grow
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2956#issuecomment-128717113.

My hypothesis goes, once we put the ratchet in motion, motivation will 
grow to tackle these issues. Without it things will wiggle forever, and 
more one way than the other. -- Andrei