On 05/19/2016 08:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Yep. chain uses voldemort type, map does not.
We definitely need to fix Voldemort types. Walter and I bounced a few ideas during DConf.
1. Do the cleartext/compress/hash troika everywhere (currently we do it on Windows). That should help in several places.
2. For Voldemort types, simply generate a GUID-style random string of e.g. 64 bytes. Currently the name of the type is composed out of its full scope, with some exponentially-increasing repetition of substrings. That would compress well, but it's just a lot of work to produce and then compress the name. A random string is cheap to produce and adequate for Voldemort types (you don't care for their name anyway... Voldemort... get it?).
I very much advocate slapping a 64-long random string for all Voldermort returns and calling it a day. I bet Liran's code will get a lot quicker to build and smaller to boot.
Andrei
