Need a Faster Compressor

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 17:44:22 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> You are right about the symbols using the VC mangling. The test 
> case "1.s.s.s.s.s" in the bugreport translated to C++ yields
>
> ?foo at Result@?1???$s at UResult@?1???$s at UResult@?1???$s <snip>
>
> i.e. 936 characters. I think this is due to the very bad 
> limitation of just back referencing the first 10 types.

  Unless ? is the proper/valid character those are far more likely 
to be failed UTF-8 decoding. Care to double check?