Denis Koroskin wrote:
I don't know if it is a good thing to have. Do you understand how much bigger executable size becomes?
If the .stringof is only used in templates, then there is no increase -- except insofar as you are able to do more with D, which allows you to build more and possibly larger applications.
If it's used in CTFE functions, that can be an issue. In the average case, you've got string constants increased in size by maybe a factor of four (ballpark guess). Probably not more than a factor of ten. I'm not sure what portion of a DMD binary, on average, is devoted to type name string constants.
