On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 9:02 PM Sven Barth via fpc-devel < fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Not necessarily. If you have two units that don't know about each other > that specialize the function with the same enum then you'd have two > specializations already. > Surely that only applies to what winds up in the PPUs for the units in question, if anything, though? As opposed to the object files and the final executable. Like, I don't see how it could possibly be the case that if two / three / four / e.t.c units all use Generics.Collections, and each one contains an instance of something like: var IntList: TList<LongInt> that this means the resulting binary contains two / three / four / e.t.c separate complete instantiations of TList for LongInt. You'd wind up with executables in the literal hundreds-of-megabytes range if that were so, even with optimizations / symbol stripping and so on activated.
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