CTFE in imported static initializers

[Stefan Koch]

On Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at 08:26:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 5/13/19 9:39 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a good answer for why this should happen, or 
>> should I file a bug?
>
>
> It's been mentioned to me that type inference is used here. 
> However, one could argue that the CTFE doesn't need to complete 
> in order to infer the type, the function is not a template or 
> auto function.
>
> In addition, if I change the declaration to:
>
> static string moddata = ...;
>
> It still takes 1 second to compile mod1.
>
> -Steve

try changing it to static immutable.