[PATCH] D17565: [Support] Add a fancy helper function to get a static name for a type.

[David Majnemer via llvm-commits]

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How hot is this code?
Your typeid trickery will not melt away at compile time, it will get demangled by the runtime...
IIRC, they have some mechanism to cache the demangled names which means that `typeid(T).name()` also acquires a lock.

If this is moderately hot, I'd suggest using `__FUNCSIG__` for MSVC.
Using `__FUNCSIG__` in `llvm::getTypeName<int>()` would give you:
`class llvm::StringRef __cdecl llvm::getTypeName<int>(void)`
The type's pretty name can be dug out by looking inside `__FUNCSIG__` for `llvm::getTypeName<` and looking backwards for `>`.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D17565