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That's no longer true; the linker has been massively extended to support templates at this point. (Otherwise every file that instantiated a particular template
by apenwarr 16y ago
That's no longer true; the linker has been massively extended to support templates at this point. (Otherwise every file that instantiated a particular template would result in all the code for that template being duplicated in the final executable. This actually used to happen in older C++ compilers.)
- wvenable 16y agoI don't consider that massively extended -- that's a optimization but it's not really a fundamental change in the way the linker works.