DMD producing huge binaries

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On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 22:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/19/2016 6:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I very much advocate slapping a 64-long random string for all 
>> Voldermort returns
>> and calling it a day. I bet Liran's code will get a lot 
>> quicker to build and
>> smaller to boot.
>
> Let's see how far we get with compression first.
>
>   https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5793
>
> Using 64 character random strings will make symbolic debugging 
> unpleasant.

You could simply add a "trivial" version of the struct + 
enclosing function name (ie once, without repetitions) before or 
after the random character string. This way you would know which 
struct its referring to, its unique, and you still avoid 
generating a 5 Exabyte large symbol name just to 
compress/hash/whatever it.