LZ4 decompression at CTFE

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On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 17:58:50 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 17:29:05 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
> wrote:
>>
>> What's the benefit? I mean after CTFE-decompression they are 
>> going to add weight to the binary as much as decompressed 
>> files.
>>
>> Compression on the other hand might be helpful to avoid 
>> precompressing everything beforehand.
>
> The compiler can load files faster, that are being used by ctfe 
> only.
> Which would be stripped out by the linker later.
> And keep in mind that it also works at runtime.
>
> Memory is scarce at compiletime and this can help reducing the 
> memory requirements. When a bit of structure is added on top.

Considering the speed and memory consumption of CTFE, I'd bet on 
the exact reverse.

Also, the damn thing is allocation in a loop.