Compilation times and idiomatic D code

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 20:12:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> I vaguely remember there was talk about compressing symbols 
> when they get too long... is there any hope of seeing this 
> realized in the near future?

Yes there is.
Rainer Schuetze is quite close to a solution. Which reduces the 
symbol-name bloat significantly.
See https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5855


There is still a problem with the template system as a whole.
Which I am working on in my spare time.
And which will become my focus after newCTFE is done.