On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 09:07:18 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:57:56 +0000
Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>
>> Storing it as body IR accomplishes nothing practical over
>> storing it as source file, i.e. .di files.
> except that there's no need to parse source code over and
> over again,
> which is good for other tools (like completion suggesting,
> intelligent
> code browsing and so on).
Which usually hold an AST in memory anyway. We have a fast
parser, parsing even a big codebase once is really not a
problem, see DCD for example.
If the only advantage is to skip a parsing stage here or
there, it does not justify the work that would be needed.
as we have a fast compiler too, i can't see any sense in
producing
machine code files at all. the only advantage is to skip a
parsing and
compiling stages here or there, it does not justify the work
that would
be needed.
Parsing is so fast it's not worth spending huge numbers of
man-hours building an effective cacheing system for it. The rest
of compilation is comparatively much slower and is therefore more
important to cache.
You're being sarcastic to a straw-man.
