Speeding up compilation of template-heavy code

[Stefan Koch]

On Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 12:24:56 UTC, drathier wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 11:53:38 UTC, Dennis wrote:
>> On Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 11:26:19 UTC, Per Nordlöw 
>> wrote:
>>> Is there a dmd flag that shows the code after template 
>>> instantiations has been performed?
>>
>> The -vcg-ast flag does that.
>
> The d.cg files still contain templates, so it appears like 
> they're instantiated after -vcg-ast?

no. -vcg-ast runs directly before codegen.
All ast-rewriteing has already happend at that point.
The reason it contains the template declarations is because they 
are still in the ast.
There is no point in removing them.