Official compiler

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/26/2016 10:38 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 23:06:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Are there any low-hanging fruit left that could make dmd faster?
>
> A big one would be overhauling the template mangling scheme so it does
> not generate mangled names a few hundred kilo (!) bytes in size anymore
> for code that uses templates and voldemort types.

My understanding is the main problem is the _same_ templates are 
repeatedly instantiated with the same exact parameters - the epitome of 
redundant work. -- Andrei