A modest proposal: eliminate template code bloat

[Walter Bright]

On 4/8/2012 4:01 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> I think it's been ages since I meant to ask why nobody (as in compiler vendors)
> does what I think is rather simple optimization.

I worked out how to do it a while ago, but there's been no time to implement it.

(You can't do a memcmp because of all the relocations.)

The main difficulty is not being able to modify the linker. So you're pretty 
much limited to what the compiler is able to do before linking. D does allow the 
compiler to deal with all the modules at compile time, so this helps a lot.