Hello dsimcha,
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Hello dsimcha,
What the heck do you need generics for when you have real templates?
To me, generics seem like just a lame excuse for templates.
smaller object code? OTOH a good implementation will noice when I can
fold together several template expansions
I understand that object file bloat with templates is at least a
theoretical concern, but come on. For most programs, at least most of
the ones I write, most of the memory consumption is data, and code is
only a tiny fraction. Does anyone have a real world use case where
object file bloat due to templates was a significant problem *and* you
weren't working w/ an embedded system where you couldn't use C#/Java
anyhow?
It's not just file size, it can also cause memory and cache pressure.
But to answer your question, I don't remember exactly how big the object
files were but I've had DMD use up 700+ MB of ram. I /think/ it was kicking
out 10+MB object files.
That was running dparse with a 200 rule grammar. OTOH generics won't help
with that.
