DMD producing huge binaries

[Georgi D via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 19:37:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/20/16 2:34 PM, Georgi D wrote:
>> 1) Exponential growth of symbol name with voldemort types.
>> I like Steven's solution where the compiler lowers the struct 
>> outside of
>> the method.
>
> Was talking to Walter on the phone and he just had one of those 
> great ideas: encode in the function mangle that it returns 
> "auto". I thought that was fantastic. Would that work? -- Andrei

This is a very interesting idea. I see one problem though: The 
real issue is not just the return type but also the types of the 
input parameters to a function. So even if the return type of a 
method is encoded as "auto" the moment the result of that method 
is  passed as parameter to another template method the long 
typename will resurface. I do not think the type of the input 
parameters could be encoded as "auto" since the different 
instances of a template method will clash in names.

In essence the problem that should be solved is the long names of 
types.