DMD producing huge binaries

[Georgi D via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 16:41:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 05/19/2016 11:56 AM, Georgi D wrote:
>> Making a local copy of chain and moving the structure outside 
>> of the
>> method solved the problem and reduced the code size.
>>
>> The stripped size even reduced from the version that did not 
>> experience
>> the huge increase. Stripped: 7.4Mb -> 5.5MB
>
> Thanks very much for helping with these measurements! -- Andrei

Just some more numbers:

On the version with the local chain which is 5.5MB

# strings test.local_choose|wc -l
4170
# strings test.local_choose|wc -c
5194012

Which mean that of the 5.5MB total binary size  4.95MB are 
strings.

Inspecting the content of the strings over 98% are symbol names. 
Is there a way to not have all the symbol names as strings even 
after the binary was stripped?

I think that some compression for the symbol names is a good idea.

I agree though that a O(n) or better for the voldemort types is 
also needed.