DMD producing huge binaries

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 22:46:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 22:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Using 64 character random strings will make symbolic debugging 
>> unpleasant.
>
> Using 6.4 megabyte strings already makes symbolic debugging 
> unpleasant.
>
> The one thing that worries me about random strings is that it 
> needs to be the same across all builds, or you'll get random 
> linking errors when doing package-at-a-time or whatever (dmd 
> already has some problems like this!). But building a gigantic 
> string then compressing or hashing it still sucks... what we 
> need is a O(1) solution that is still unique and repeatable.

Good point. Using a SHA1 derived from the string instead of a 
GUID is imho better. It has the advantage of repeatability, is 
even shorter and not very expensive to generate.