On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 05:22:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 03/25/2016 11:40 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 3/25/16 11:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/25/16 10:07 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
We should actually be moving *away from* voldemort types:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/n96k3g$ka5$1...@digitalmars.com
Has this bug been submitted? -- Andrei
I'm not sure it's a bug that can be fixed. It's caused by the
design of
the way template name mangling is included.
I can submit a general "enhancement", but I don't know what it
would
say? Make template mangling more efficient? :)
I suppose having a bug report with a demonstration of why we
should
change it is a good thing. I'll add that.
-Steve
Compression of template names. -- Andrei
Would literally not help. The problem in the bug report is
recursive expansion of templates creating mangled name length
O(2^n) where n is the number of recursive calls. If you compress
that to an eighth of its size, you get O(2^(n-3)), which isn't
actually fixing things, as that is still O(2^n). The
(conceptually) simple change I suggested brings the mangled name
length down to O(n).
You could compress *that*, but then you are compressing such a
small amount of data most compression algorithms will cause the
size to grow, not shrink.
