on the length of symbols

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 09:33:42 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> here's a single symbol from my project

The underlying problem is that symbols names grow quadratically 
when combining templated ranges, because each range's name is a 
template argument to the next range. Sometimes name occur twice, 
as template argument and return type.
An obvious solution to the problem is to adopt a compression 
scheme similar to C++ mangling on Windows.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/c392c80c2f04a56701fed3a61a5c4df4571a3573/src/cppmangle.c#L1712

This is a well known and important problem but has a lower 
priority than many other issues. You can help to solve it by 
opening a bugzilla issue (might already exist) and finding out 
how to integrate such a backreference compression with D's 
current mangling.

http://dlang.org/abi.html#MangledName