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From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
To: Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Slow handling of C++ symbol names
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>
> Find out how many symbols monotone has
> $ nm monotone|wc
>    23623   70853 3657239
>
>
>
> Some of symbol names from the boost library are really, really, really
> long. Here is an example that is over 2K in length:
>
That's not too bad, actually.
Consider that your 2k symbol expands to over 80k when demangled!