DMD producing huge binaries

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/20/2016 11:18 PM, poliklosio wrote:
> I have an Idea of reproducible, less-than-exponential time mangling, although I
> don't know how actionable.
>
> Leave mangling as is, but pretend that you are mangling something different, for
> example when the input is
> foo!(boo!(bar!(baz!(int))), bar!(baz!(int)), baz!(int))
> pretend that you are mangling
> foo!(boo!(bar!(baz!(int))), #1, #2)
> Where #1 and #2 are special symbols that refer to stuff that was **already in
> the name**, particularly:
> #1: bar!(baz!(int))
> #2: baz!(int)

This is what LZW compression does, except that LZW does it in general rather 
than just for identifiers.