Need a Faster Compressor

Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 24 14:34:17 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 21:26:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/24/2016 2:06 PM, Stefan Koch 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.

But would one ever have to be able to reconstruct the mangle ?
templates cannot be exported nor can instanciations.
Or can they ?


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