DMD producing huge binaries

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 17:34:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> Equivalent to not mangling return type at all. But this leaves 
> you with 2^^n growth, still exponential. Also is there any 
> evidence that compression is faster than hashing?

  Depends on implementation and algorithm. However even the 
weakest compression settings can yield huge initial compression 
benefits. In normal text a reduction of 2:1 is expected, and will 
. The benefit being compression still contains all it's 
information, and hashing will reduce the size to a fixed length 
but throw away all that information for unique identity.

  LZO is a compressor/decompressor that prioritizes speed and can 
be used in real-time applications for very little cost to add 
compression to any application. I tinkered with some of it's 
options a while back and it did okay, not as good as zlib but 
that's to be expected. Although using zlib on it's fastest 
setting will likely yield good results too.

  http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/