>Doug,
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>My last try to explain...
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>>Disabling a command isn't the same as removing it or never inserting it to begin with.
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>Disabling it (like MTDLL does) *is* what I'm talking about.

No. MTDLL has *all* UI code stripped out of it. Just taking out the "legacy" stuff will not make the runtime libraries much smaller.

>My suggestion was not about bloat or speed. It was to make it possible to pre-process code into C++ code.

Why? If you want C++, use C++. Am I missing something here?