DMD producing huge binaries

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 22:01:21 UTC, Georgi D wrote:
> This is a very interesting idea. I see one problem though: The 
> real issue is not just the return type but also the types of 
> the input parameters to a function. So even if the return type 
> of a method is encoded as "auto" the moment the result of that 
> method is  passed as parameter to another template method the 
> long typename will resurface. I do not think the type of the 
> input parameters could be encoded as "auto" since the different 
> instances of a template method will clash in names.
>
> In essence the problem that should be solved is the long names 
> of types.

  I keep having it go through my head, if we had to hash the 
result, I'd prefer to has the source (minus comments & 
whitespace, and after replacements have been done) to come up 
with a reproducible value. This of course is if long names or 
compression won't do the job.