Long symbol names (Was: demangle doesn't work with...)

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 18:14:59 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 16:18:34 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 15:22:21 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>> Am I the only person that worries greatly about the length of 
>>> symbols in D?
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>> <snip>
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>> That's 13 kilobytes of data for a single symbol name!
>
> The symbols typically contain a lot of repeated sub strings. 
> Perhaps there is a better mangling scheme that encodes it with 
> some kind of prefix tree?

The way template are mangled in super redundant. This can 
probably be fixed easily, but this is a breakage.