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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-27 18:18, 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?
>
> No, I do as well. My units of measurement project suffered from very
> non-negligible code bloat due to symbol name length, and even if that
> was a rather extraordinary endeavor to begin with, "normal" D code is
> affected just as well. For example, try this one from the std.algorithm
> unit tests:
>
> ———
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> ———
>
> That's 13 kilobytes of data for a single symbol name! And the whole file
> also crashes the MinGW as when debug info generation is enabled, with
> the following rather hilarious error message:
>
> "Fatal error: can't close
> N:/Build/Work/ldc2-llvm3.3-release/runtime/phobos_std_algorithm_debug.o:
> File too big"

That's just insane.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg