Do everything in Java…

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 11:46:50 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:44:49 +0000
> John Colvin via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Parsing is so fast it's not worth spending huge numbers of 
>> man-hours building an effective cacheing system for it.
> and generating machine code is useless at all, it's enough to 
> simply
> improve CTFE.
>
>> The rest of compilation is comparatively much slower and is 
>> therefore more important to cache.
> what does "the rest of compilation" mean? there are alot of 
> things you
> can do with AST before writing it to disk. ah, just writing 
> compressed
> AST to disk is good enough, as reading it back is *way* 
> *faster* than
> parsing the source. and any other tool -- like lint, or 
> completion
> tool, or documentation generators can use that compressed AST 
> without
> reparsing the sources.
>
> you can't see how this can help 'cause we don't have such
> AST-companions yet. i can see how this will help 'cause i have 
> alot of
> expirience with turbo/borland pascal and BlackBox Component 
> Builder.
> think a-la BCB can be a killer app for D, but it's very hard to 
> build
> it without good AST-companions.

BlackBox! A fellow user. :)

Another example, the Oberon operating system, specially the 
System 3 Gadgets framework.

--
Paulo