Official compiler

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Feb 26 14:40:28 PST 2016


On 2/26/2016 10:34 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> One interesting line of development (though would be difficult to implement)
> would be to do all three semantic passes asynchronously using fibers.

I'd be terrified of all the synchronizing that would be necessary there. The 
lexing, and code generation would be far easier to parallelize.

> If I understand correctly, sdc already does this with many cases that need
> ironing out.

The "many cases that need ironing out" is always the problem :-)



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