demangle doesn't work with __ModuleInfoZ __initZ __arrayZ

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 20:34:30 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 20:14:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> At some point Walter and I were talking about generating an MD 
>> hash for very long names. That has some disadvantages (i.e. no 
>> easy reverse lookup) but it may work.
>
> Surely a better solution would be to use a lossless 
> compression? With the amount of repetition you should get very 
> high ratios.

I'd begin with the mangling of template. It is by definition 
redundant, and changing it without any compression scheme can 
already drastically reduce the pathologic cases demonstrated in 
this thread.