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Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Tue Jun 4 19:23:54 PDT 2013


Am Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:58:01 -0700
schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:

> On 6/4/2013 5:13 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> > Probably seek time if the files are scattered and not in cache.
> > That's hardly a show stopper unless you have 17.156 files like
> > the Java Runtime. But they 'solved' it by zipping them up.
> 
> 
> Actually, I've often thought of making dmd able to read everything it needs out 
> of a zip file.

That would have been difficult for editors and IDEs that can
look up file names from include paths only when they are not
zipped up. It is good the way it is.

-- 
Marco



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