On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 22:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/19/2016 6:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I very much advocate slapping a 64-long random string for all
Voldermort returns
and calling it a day. I bet Liran's code will get a lot
quicker to build and
smaller to boot.
Let's see how far we get with compression first.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5793
Using 64 character random strings will make symbolic debugging
unpleasant.
Unfortunately, the PR doesn't cure the root cause, but only
provides linear 45-55% improvement, which doesn't scale with the
exponential growth of the symbol size:
case time to compile du -h strings file | wc -c
NG-case before 0m19.708s 339M 338.23M
NG-case after 0m27.006s 218M 209.35M
OK-case before 0m1.466s 16M 15.33M
OK-case after 0m1.856s 11M 9.28M
For more info on the measurements:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5793#issuecomment-220550682
