Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/27/14, 3:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Again, this accumulation of barnacles is not a failure of the optimizer.
> It's a failure of adding gee-gaws to the source code without checking
> their effect.

The Go project has something nice set up - easy-to-run benchmarks that 
are part of the acceptance testing. That's good prevention against 
creeping inefficiencies. -- Andrei