Re: We're out of tree codes; now what?

[NickK]

Mike Stump wrote:
On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Doug Gregor wrote:
With the introduction of the variadic templates patch, we now have
more than 255 tree codes in GCC.

I do wonder about compilation speed for C++ code. Barring some other 
innovative approach, even with a slow down, which I'd hate, I think 
this may be the best approach.

Thanks for addressing this.


How about a variable size - huffman encode the most frequent codes in to 
one byte, relegate the less frequent to two bytes.

Nick.