On 24.07.2017 21:29, Steve Fink wrote:
My guess is that the compilers/linkers don't really handle heavy C++ template usage very well, and end up generating and then eliminating massive number of duplicate template instantiations. But that's idle speculation.
I doubt there's much that compilers can do better here. When compiling a C++ source, it needs to compile all that's needed within that file (header-defined functions, constructors, template- instantiations, etc). Later, at the linking phase, it can throw out lots of duplicated code. For statically linked binaries, it's still quite easy, but w/ shared libraries it gets pretty complex. --mtx _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
