Build It And They Will Not Come

[Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 06:50:51 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:

> Humm, I wonder if we could strip it out before the final link.

I tried a number of things, all discussed on the D.gnu forum 
(http://forum.dlang.org/post/quemhwpgijwmqtpxukiv@forum.dlang.org).  The only hack that worked some of the time was to compile to assembly, use a sed script to modify the assembly, and then compile the modified assembly.  That's pretty ridiculous.  I can't go to my employer with that and I don't think anyone will take me seriously if my projects contain such things.

A few compiler devs threw me a bone with an -fno-rtti 
implementation.  I am very grateful to those who worked on that 
and I think it has great value, but it forces me to compromise on 
slicing, postblit, and a few others, and that severely diminished 
its appeal. This specific issue, TypeInfo bloat, is just a 
symptom of a more general problem in the D toolchain, namely, 
dead code elimination.

This is not an opportunity to find clever hacks and workarounds, 
its an opportunity to improve the compiler and linker.

Mike