are mixin string templates with functions removed?
JS
js.mdnq at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 10:52:28 PDT 2013
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:47:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:12:51PM +0200, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:09:07 UTC, JS wrote:
>> >If I have a bunch of templates that are only used for code
>> >generation, are they removed in the binary(since they are not
>> >needed)?
>>
>> templates don't exist in binaries.
>
> Templates are like cookie molds, you use them to generate lots
> of
> (almost) identical cookies, but you never serve the mold to the
> customer. ;-)
>
>
> T
But what about the functions that exist in them?
e.g.,
template A()
{
void A()
{
B();
}
void B() { }
}
is everything in the template removed 100% or is there junk that
the compiler doesn't remove?
Oh... and I'm not talking about theoretical... I'm talking about
what dmd actually does.
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