DMD producing huge binaries

[Guillaume Boucher via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 18:25:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/20/2016 11:18 PM, poliklosio wrote:
>> foo!(boo!(bar!(baz!(int))), #1, #2)
>> Where #1 and #2 are special symbols that refer to stuff that 
>> was **already in
>> the name**, particularly:
>> #1: bar!(baz!(int))
>> #2: baz!(int)
>
> This is what LZW compression does, except that LZW does it in 
> general rather than just for identifiers.

It's more like LZ77 than LZW.