[Issue 14805] Unreasonably slow "new Struct[large]"

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14805

--- Comment #4 from Ketmar Dark <ketmar at ketmar.no-ip.org> ---
(In reply to Ivan Kazmenko from comment #1)
> Maybe it generates an instance of the array at compile time?

it is, indeed. `auto dummy = new Struct[513*513];` can be evaluated in compile
time, and compiler does exactly that. this will also produce a huge .o file
with mostly zeroes (.init) inside.

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