DMD producing huge binaries

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/20/2016 5:57 AM, ZombineDev wrote:
> Walter's PR slows down the compilation with
> 25-40% according to my tests. I expect that compilation would be faster if the
> whole process is skipped altogether.


The compressor only kicks in if the string is longer than 64 bytes. I set it 
pretty low in order to have it kick in often, and hopefully flush out any bugs 
in it.

For a production version, the minimum size should be set substantially larger, 
based on testing to provide a reasonable balance.

That should speed it up a lot. Also, the algorithm is a bit naively implemented, 
I bet it could be speeded up substantially.

Hashing isn't algorithmically cheap, either.