On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 16:30, Bo Persson via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On 2024-06-30 at 14:28, Marcin Jaczewski via Std-Proposals wrote:
> > On GCC mailing list I notice email:
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2024-June/244252.html
> > Aside of misguided author (profanities & sending it to gcc instead of here)
> > some of his concerns could be valid.
> >
> > Example: there is a freestanding version of the standard library module?
> > Or how to reduce blot that `import std;` can cause even if I only
> > use part of it like `std::vector` or `std::unique_ptr` but
> > I do not plan touching `std::regexp` or io.
> >
> > Maybe something like `import std.core;` (like MSVC did) or
> > use import headers like `import <iostream>;`?
> >
> > Or is this simply a QoI issue and the committee does not need to consider
> > how big is binary after `import std;`?
>
> Is this a real problem, or just an upset user?
>
> I don't have your embedded compiler, so tried this on Visual Studio:
>
> import std;
>
> int main()
> {}
>
> and get an 11 kB exe-file.
>
> Is that too much bloat?

If you remove that import, how large is your exe-file?