DMD producing huge binaries

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/19/2016 08:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Yep. chain uses voldemort type, map does not.

We definitely need to fix Voldemort types. Walter and I bounced a few 
ideas during DConf.

1. Do the cleartext/compress/hash troika everywhere (currently we do it 
on Windows). That should help in several places.

2. For Voldemort types, simply generate a GUID-style random string of 
e.g. 64 bytes. Currently the name of the type is composed out of its 
full scope, with some exponentially-increasing repetition of substrings. 
That would compress well, but it's just a lot of work to produce and 
then compress the name. A random string is cheap to produce and adequate 
for Voldemort types (you don't care for their name anyway... 
Voldemort... get it?).

I very much advocate slapping a 64-long random string for all Voldermort 
returns and calling it a day. I bet Liran's code will get a lot quicker 
to build and smaller to boot.


Andrei