Need a Faster Compressor

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 24 14:26:58 PDT 2016


On 5/24/2016 2:06 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 20:39:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/24/2016 1:27 PM, Guillaume Boucher wrote:
>>> There's no reason not to use the compression in the deco name.
>>>  Just make sure
>>> the references are relative and you're set.
>>
>> Not totally, since you'd like to refer to types that are common across deco
>> names.
>
> On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 20:39:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> A serious question, do these templates even need a mangle ?
> Is anyone ever going to call them from a different module ?
> I don't think you could do that because those are voldemort types.
>
> Those symbols are only temporary aren't they ?

The types do exist in the compiler, and are used in template name generation, 
generating types, etc.


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