template statistics

[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 04:46:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 03:19:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/2/2020 7:41 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> Most the rest are reflection helpers in Phobos, many of which 
>>> could prolly be trivially replaced with inline checks but 
>>> .... maybe not a big deal anyway. idk.
>>
>> The thing is, `writeln("hello")` can be expanded to 
>> `core.stdc.stdio.puts("hello")`. Done.
>>
>> Phobos seems to do a lot of "going around the Horn" instead of 
>> taking the canal.
>
> I have been saying that for years.
>
> Apparently you never used `-vcg-ast`.

I've recently been informed that this may have sounded dismissive.
It was not meant that way.

I am just a little frustrated that my work to make this issue 
visible seems to have gone unnoticed.

Then again .... I didn't exactly advertise it.