On Friday, 9 September 2016 at 09:31:37 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Don't worry about this special case too much. At least GCC can
turn padLength from a runtime argument into a compile-time
argument itself, so the need for templates to do a poor man's
const-folding is reduced. So in this case the advise is not to
use a template.
You said that there is a lot of code-gen and string comparisons
going on. Is code-gen already invoked on-demand? I assume with
"dmd -o-" code-gen is completely disabled, which is great for
ddoc, .di and dependency graph generation.
This is not what this is about.
This is about cases where you cannot avoid templates because you
do type-based operations.
The code above was just an example to illustrate the problem.
