Generating __awaiter in all files even if no async/await is present

[tjoskar]

Hi,

If I compile the following code:

class Index {
    async someMethod() {
        await new Promise(resolve => resolve());
    }
}

It generates a helper function __awaiter and adds it to the output file, which is fine.

However, if I add another ts file, the output file will contain the __awaiter function as well, even if it doesn't contain any async/await method.

Exemple:

index.ts:

class Index {
    async someMethod() {
        await new Promise(resolve => resolve());
    }
}

a.ts:

let a;

Output:
index.js:

var __awaiter = (this && this.__awaiter) || function (thisArg, _arguments, Promise, generator) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
        generator = generator.call(thisArg, _arguments);
        function cast(value) { return value instanceof Promise && value.constructor === Promise ? value : new Promise(function (resolve) { resolve(value); }); }
        function onfulfill(value) { try { step("next", value); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
        function onreject(value) { try { step("throw", value); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
        function step(verb, value) {
            var result = generator[verb](value);
            result.done ? resolve(result.value) : cast(result.value).then(onfulfill, onreject);
        }
        step("next", void 0);
    });
};
class Index {
    someMethod() {
        return __awaiter(this, void 0, Promise, function* () {
            yield new Promise(resolve => resolve());
        });
    }
}

a.js:

var __awaiter = (this && this.__awaiter) || function (thisArg, _arguments, Promise, generator) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
        generator = generator.call(thisArg, _arguments);
        function cast(value) { return value instanceof Promise && value.constructor === Promise ? value : new Promise(function (resolve) { resolve(value); }); }
        function onfulfill(value) { try { step("next", value); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
        function onreject(value) { try { step("throw", value); } catch (e) { reject(e); } }
        function step(verb, value) {
            var result = generator[verb](value);
            result.done ? resolve(result.value) : cast(result.value).then(onfulfill, onreject);
        }
        step("next", void 0);
    });
};
let a;

Is this by design?
This is not a big issue from my part but I'm working on a quite big project with lots of files and this adds about 604 B for each file (if I remove the spaces), and it adds a lot of noise.

My tsconfig:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "es6",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "noImplicitAny": false,
        "removeComments": true,
        "preserveConstEnums": true,
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "sourceMap": true,
        "outDir": "./dist"
    },
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules"
    ]
}

$ tsc --version
> message TS6029: Version 1.8.0-dev.20151108

Thanks!