On 12/16/11 3:38 PM, Trass3r wrote:
A related issue is phobos being an intermodule dependency monster. A simple hello world pulls in almost 30 modules! And std.stdio is supposed to be just a simple wrapper around C FILE.
In fact it doesn't (after yesterday's commit). The std code in hello, world is a minuscule 3KB. The rest of 218KB is druntime.
Once we solve the static constructor issue, function-level linking should take care of pulling only the minimum needed.
One interesting fact is that a lot of issues that I tended to take non-critically ("templates cause bloat", "intermodule dependencies cause bloat", "static linking creates large programs") looked a whole lot differently when I looked closer at causes and effects.
Andrei
