Phobos for Review: std.buffer.scopebuffer

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 13:14:00 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 13:11:57 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>> Yes, but a new template instance is not necessarily a problem 
>> at runtime or for the executable size. The contents of the 
>> template instance is all that matters. When the content is a 
>> tiny inlinable function, there is no bloat.
>
> I have investiagted relevant parts of DMD for months. It simply 
> does not work that way and changing it would require huge 
> frontend refactoring. Inlining does not affect bloat in DMD at 
> all. Every instance that is ever mentioned in code will always 
> make its way to the target binary. You can trivially check it.

It is the linker's job to purge unused code.