DMD Source Archive - Why?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 10 April 2024 at 16:42:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 April 2024 at 03:47:30 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Yes, the nice thing is knowing you will not have to ask the 
> filesystem for something you know doesn't exist. Pre-loading 
> the directory structure could do the same thing, but I think 
> that's definitely not as efficient.
>
> [...]

C++ compilers are already on the next level, past PCH, with C++ 
modules.

VC++ uses a database format for BMI (Binary Module Interface), 
has open sourced it, and there are some people trying to champion 
it as means to have C++ tooling similar to what Java and .NET 
IDEs can do with JVM/CLR metadata.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-sourcing-ifc-sdk-for-cpp-modules/