AST files instead of DI interface files for faster compilation and easier distribution

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Jun 12 06:46:44 PDT 2012


On 2012-06-12 14:09, foobar wrote:

> This is a solved problem since the 80's (E.g. Pascal units). Per Adam's
> post, the issue is tied to DMD's use of OMF/optlink which we all would
> like to get rid of anyway. Once we're in proper COFF land, couldn't we
> just store the required metadata (binary AST?) in special sections in
> the object files themselves?

Can't the same be done with OMF? I'm not saying I want to keep OMF.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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