Our template emission strategy is broken

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 18:06:22 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:56:51 UTC, Martin Nowak 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:47:27 UTC, Johannes Pfau 
>> wrote:
>>> I think we should really fix these issues, working separate 
>>> compilation is very important.
>>
>> No, it's not. Separate compilation is C++-ishly slow by design 
>> (b/c all dependencies get imported over and over again, just 
>> like headers).
>> We should endorse compiling small (rather independent) 
>> packages to static/shared libraries.
>
> This would be great if cross-module inlining actually worked. 
> pragma(inline,true) doesn't even work across modules afaik

It does if you compile by package with something else than DMD, 
because DMD does inlining in some very weird ways.