TickDuration deprecation

[Walter Bright]

On 11/22/2017 2:45 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/22/2017 1:41 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> Why would the conversion function be linked in if I never use it?
> 
> Good question. It depends on how the code is written, and how the compiler 
> represents it in the object file, and how the linker deals with unreferenced 
> parts of object files.


For another example, unreferenced virtual functions never get elided because a 
reference to them does exist - they're in the virtual function pointer table. 
And then, of course, everything that virtual function references is never elided.

Another reason to be careful of "kitchen sink" abstractions.