On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:43:48AM +0400, dmitry boyarintsev wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Adem <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would I have your blessing if I proposed a bounty to unentwine them so that > > each one of those major modules becomes objects in tehir own right > > --commnicating with one another through public/published events and > > properties. > > > > I can guess that it would be hard to do, but I feel it will be absolutely > > impossible without your (and the rest of compiler team's) blessing. > > I can see another benefit of separating parser/tokenizer from code > generation. Is easier and better support of newer targets. I'm talking > about long wished LLVM, and even possibly Java and/or .NET. (No need > to support all possible features, but generate their native > byte-code). > So far, the internal structure of the compiler is the **only** > obstacle (caused by lack of manpower, actually)
Hmm, actually getting the existing codebase compiled for those targets without requiring extensive changes seems a bigger challenge. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
