On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 12:51:13 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
It seems like the gdc compiled program has more symbols for some
reason:
----------
nm hello-dmd --defined-only | wc -l
3834
nm hello-gdc --defined-only | wc -l
5451
----------
Here's a "diff" of the defined symbols:
https://gist.github.com/jpf91/6550247
Yep and `--gc-sections` gets it down to:
```
$ nm hello-gdc --defined-only | wc -l
3894
```
I was curious though what kind of code gen optimization dmd uses
here (as opposed to gdc) as simple experiments show that it does
not remove unused template instances.
