On 05/21/2016 06:27 PM, Anon wrote:
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.
My understanding is that the encoding "auto" return in the mangling
makes any exponential growth disappear. Is that the case? -- Andrei
