Long symbol names (Was: demangle doesn't work with...)

Peter Alexander peter.alexander.au at gmail.com
Mon May 27 11:14:58 PDT 2013


On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 16:18:34 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 15:22:21 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> Am I the only person that worries greatly about the length of 
>> symbols in D?
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> That's 13 kilobytes of data for a single symbol name!

The symbols typically contain a lot of repeated sub strings. 
Perhaps there is a better mangling scheme that encodes it with 
some kind of prefix tree?



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