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[Stefan Koch]

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 01:21:11 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
> I'd like to add an attribute to indicate that the annotated 
> function is only available at compile time so that in cases 
> where the operation is invalid at runtime (strings and 
> concatenation on a GPU for instance) but the result is only 
> used at compile time (for a mixin) the compiler is free to not 
> codegen that function.
>
> I can add this to LDC pretty easily, but does anyone else have 
> a use for this (e.g. shrinking binary sizes for mixin heavy 
> codebases) and would benefit having this as a standard thing?

Hi Nicholas,

I am going to add a feature which will help you in this case;
As part of the work I am doing to make templates faster.