Compilation times and idiomatic D code

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:32:24AM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/5/17 5:24 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:18:45PM +0000, jmh530 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 20:32:08 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
[...]
> > > > Rainer Schuetze is quite close to a solution. Which reduces the
> > > > symbol-name bloat significantly.
> > > > See https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5855
[...]
> I'm super-psyched this has moved from "proof of concept" to ready for
> review. Kudos to Rainer for his work on this! Has been a PITA for a
> while:
> 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15831
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/n96k3g$ka5$1@digitalmars.com

Yes, kudos to Rainer for making this a (near) reality!


[...]
> I have found that the linker gets REALLY slow when the symbols get
> large. So it's not necessarily the compiler that's slow for this.
[...]

True, I didn't profile the compiler carefully to discern whether it was
the compiler that's slow, or the linker.  But either way, having smaller
symbols will benefit both.


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