Compilation times and idiomatic D code

[kinke 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?

LDC has an experimental feature replacing long names by their 
hash; ldc2 -help:
...
   -hash-threshold=<uint>                    - Hash symbol names 
longer than this threshold (experimental)