Modern C++ Lamentations

[Ethan]

On Friday, 4 January 2019 at 16:28:32 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2019 12:54:12 +0000, Rubn wrote:
>> Here we go again. Really? You don't think there is any reason 
>> to using shared libraries in anything other than plugins? You 
>> then go on to list two other valid reasons in your next run on 
>> sentence. I'll add some more to your list
>
> I'll give another: linking times. With GTKD, static linking 
> costs something like 6-10 seconds more than dynamic linking, 
> which is huge.

And to add to this. *ANY* large project benefits from reducing to 
smaller DLLs and a corresponding static .lib to load them.

The MSVC team has come around in the last five years to love game 
developers specifically because we create massive codebases that 
tax the compiler. Remember how I said our binary sizes were 
something up near 100MB on Quantum Break during one of my DConf 
talks? Good luck linking that in one hit.