On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 21:35:12 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
In typical programs it is indeed a factor, and can be considerably more than 2x too. […]
To expand on that a bit, if you write template- and CTFE-less programs with no unused code and no inlined functions, you would obviously expect much less gain from linker-level dead code/data elimination than for a typical D2 program.
— David
