Who can make Phobos faster to import?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/20/2017 10:31 PM, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 at 18:21:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> A tool (call it depend - heh) to automate that would be awesome. For 
>> example, this run would make all imported names explicit:
>>
>> depend --explicit *.d
>>
>> This run would push all imports down to the innermost scope of usage:
>>
>> depend --pushdown *.d
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> I'm on it.  I tried using a version of Seb's frontend library yesterday 
> but with the standard dmd main and tried running it on std.stdio, but it 
> asserted in asmSemantic because of an asm block somewhere in druntime, 
> so I'm back to using a tweaked full dmd with the backend simply disabled 
> again:
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7425
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/gluelayer.d#L47
> https://gist.github.com/joakim-noah/09cf49bee3d82b03a54f
> 
> Once I have something basic working, I'll put it up on github, so others 
> who are interested can play with it and pitch in to make it a real tool.

That's an awesome start, thanks! -- Andrei