Our template emission strategy is broken

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 14:50:27 UTC, Johannes Pfau 
wrote:
> Anyway, I meant working _separate_ compilation is important, 
> incremental compilations is much less important for me. GDC 
> doesn't even support multiobj style compilation.

The particular issue I mentioned in the original post (that will 
hit GDC as well, by the way, if/as soon as you are using 
TemplateInstance::needsCodegen in your glue layer) has nothing to 
do with "multiobj" compilation.

> BTW: shouldn't incremental compilation with one single output 
> object have exactly the same result as compiling into one 
> static library?

Yes, and both are broken.

  — David