on the length of symbols

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 21:18:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> D already does (for Win32) a generic compression on names. It 
> works a lot better than poorly reinventing compression - it's 
> far less complex, less buggy, easier to implement, etc.
>
> I'd support adding a Win32-like compressor. The change I'd make 
> is having it only use identifier characters for the compressed 
> result.

Yeah, that would solve the problem.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/932e0a5c2f73b410f0a61ad721e78870ecf17510/src/backend/cgobj.c#L3760