How to accelerate the linking time?

[Arun Chandrasekaran]

On Saturday, 11 July 2020 at 00:36:47 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 7/10/20 8:17 PM, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 July 2020 at 12:15:56 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>> wrote:
>>> On 7/10/20 1:45 AM, zoujiaqing wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The linking time is high because of the symbol count/sizes 
>>> generally. Lots of templates means the linker takes a while 
>>> to sort through the mess you made ;)
>>>
>> 
>> Mike Franklin optimized the mangling a while ago. That was a 
>> crucial change, IMO (imagine how big the original was!).
>
> Did you mean Rainer's change to use backreferences?

Yeah, sorry about that. It was indeed Rainer's change!