On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 22:46:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 22:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Using 64 character random strings will make symbolic debugging
unpleasant.
Using 6.4 megabyte strings already makes symbolic debugging
unpleasant.
The one thing that worries me about random strings is that it
needs to be the same across all builds, or you'll get random
linking errors when doing package-at-a-time or whatever (dmd
already has some problems like this!). But building a gigantic
string then compressing or hashing it still sucks... what we
need is a O(1) solution that is still unique and repeatable.
Good point. Using a SHA1 derived from the string instead of a
GUID is imho better. It has the advantage of repeatability, is
even shorter and not very expensive to generate.
