On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 20:50:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/21/2016 1:49 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
We already have a compressor in the compiler source for
compressing names:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/backend/compress.c
A faster one would certainly be nice. Anyone game?
Note how well it does:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15831#c5
The underlying symbols are still growing exponentially. Nobody
has the RAM for that, regardless of what size the resultant
binary is.
Compressing the symbol names is a bandage. The compiler needs a
new kidney.
