Object.factory() and exe file size bloat

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/22/2015 1:22 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 August 2015 at 20:14:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I'm not sure how export would help on Linux.
>
> One of the use cases for export on Linux would be to set the ELF visibility
> based on it. Emitting all the symbols with default visibility, like we currently
> do, leads to size and load time problems with large libraries. Big C++ projects
> are plagued regularly by this (cf. "-fvisibility=hidden").

A bugzilla enhancement request for this would be nice.