Program size, linking matter, and static this()

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/16/11 6:53 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, December 16, 2011 18:47:02 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> One more thing - could you take the time to explain why you believe
>> calling tzset() compulsively is needed?
>
> Some of the C stuff that LocalTime uses requires it. If LocalTime is lazily
> initialized, then it can be called then though rather than in the shared
> static constructor.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thanks. Sounds like we have a plan!

Andrei