Tsoding streamed about D

[Walter Bright]

On 3/19/2025 12:47 AM, Manu wrote:
> I never want to see 8 different copies of a function because it's called with 
> byte,ubyte,short,ushort,int,uint,long,ulong... where one opcode is different 
> because it performed a different width sign-extension, and where the 
> sign-extension should have been performed by the calling code anyway! Phobos is 
> lousy with this sort of problem, and the binaries it produces are orders of 
> magnitude bigger than they should be a lot of the time. Very aggressive 
> optimisation might fix it, but it's basically just random chance as to whether 
> optimisation will successfully collapse some insane code down to something 
> appropriate or not.

I'm painfully aware of the template bloat.

Adam Wilson is in charge of Phobos 3. Let him know!