Possible solution to template bloat problem?

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 01:33:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> [...]
>> Reminds me: how hard is writing own linker is again? :)
>
> Honestly, I think it's about time linker technology is 
> rethought and
> developed further.

Actually, I was asking about this not because there are critical 
issues with existing linker technology. While it definitely has a 
lot of space for improvements, even good old `ld` has plenty of 
features that do matter. Collection of unused sections that was 
already mentioned can result in huge binary size improvements. 
I'd love to enable this by default - problem is we can't rely on 
platform-specific tools to define such an important feature 
tightly coupled with language itself (think about `export`).