On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 02:33:49 UTC, ketmar wrote:
H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 01:21:11AM +0000, Nicholas Wilson via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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I'd like to have this too. Some of my template-heavy code use
a good
number of CTFE-only functions that are only called at
compile-time.
Since they are nested inside the template, they do quickly add
up to a
lot of dead code in the executable. Having a @ctfeonly
annotation that
tells the compiler not to codegen the (many instantiations of
the)
function would be greatly welcomed.
T
this is a hack for something that really should be done in
linker, automatically. please, people, let's not turn D into
C++! ;-)
i mean: this has a short-time benefits, but makes the language
more complex, less clear, and completely destroys any incentive
to make smartlinking work as intended in case it is broken.
Not all of the generated code goes through a linker ;)
For dcompute strings aren't even supported yet! Let alone
concatenation.
Also not generating the code in the first place means less I/O
for the compiler and less work for the linker.
I definitely don't want D to become C++. What is smartlinking?
This is intended for stuff like code that generates strings for
mixins.
