Precompilation: compact the symbol table.

runtime/vm/symbols.h

Index: runtime/vm/symbols.h
diff --git a/runtime/vm/symbols.h b/runtime/vm/symbols.h
index eae0796ff88d36a05c18545ce310d08db6c8b13f..9aca7d225ae56d054940f9f66701c3e7d28daa1d 100644
--- a/runtime/vm/symbols.h
+++ b/runtime/vm/symbols.h
@@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ class Symbols : public AllStatic {
   // Initialize and setup a symbol table for the isolate.
   static void SetupSymbolTable(Isolate* isolate);
 
+  // Treat the symbol table as weak and collect garbage. Answer the number of
+  // freed symbols.

[siva, 2016/01/27 21:21:10]

Maybe

"Returns the number of symbols that have been deleted from the symbol table as
they are not referenced anywhere."

[rmacnak, 2016/01/27 23:06:20]

Done.

+  static intptr_t Compact(Isolate* isolate);
+
   // Creates a Symbol given a C string that is assumed to contain
   // UTF-8 encoded characters and '\0' is considered a termination character.
   // TODO(7123) - Rename this to FromCString(....).