On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 13:11:57 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
Yes, but a new template instance is not necessarily a problem at runtime or for the executable size. The contents of the template instance is all that matters. When the content is a tiny inlinable function, there is no bloat.
I have investiagted relevant parts of DMD for months. It simply does not work that way and changing it would require huge frontend refactoring. Inlining does not affect bloat in DMD at all. Every instance that is ever mentioned in code will always make its way to the target binary. You can trivially check it.
